{"id":2600,"date":"2008-10-27T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:06:20","slug":"ical-interface-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/10\/27\/ical-interface-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"iCal Interface Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2978857833\/\" title=\"iCal Consistent Fail by JulianBleecker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3269\/2978857833_229f8ff304_o.png\" width=\"431\" height=\"400\" alt=\"iCal Consistent Fail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that scheduling would be one of the easier problems to work out, but clearly there are these simple little constant fails. Here&#8217;s a scheduling event for a conference call I will have in a couple of weeks. The call will likely happen when I&#8217;m in Helsinki, but the invite is for some other time zone. But, I can&#8217;t seem to assign a time zone to the appointment. That&#8217;s a hole, but, wait..there&#8217;s more. My computer won&#8217;t know what timezone it will be in \u2014 I guess it could check Dopplr or something \u2014\u00a0but it won&#8217;t just know based on context, or the orientation of the stars. I&#8217;d have to set the clock when I get there, but then I won&#8217;t know what time it is back home, which I like to know for staying in touch and not calling home at weird times or just to have some sort of lightweight affinity relationship back home.<\/p>\n<p>But, here&#8217;s the real perplexing thing. What the f**k is up with iCal always giving me ridiculous numbers of minutes-prior-to.. alarm selections? I mean..really. I&#8217;m not being asshole-y, I actually really want to know why that is there? If it&#8217;s a bug, why is it still there after, like..years of iCal?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that scheduling would be one of the easier problems to work out, but clearly there are these simple little constant fails. Here&#8217;s a scheduling event for a conference call I will have in a couple of weeks. The call will likely happen when I&#8217;m in Helsinki, but the invite is for some other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/10\/27\/ical-interface-fail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iCal Interface Fail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,121],"tags":[329,509,597,1201],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>iCal Interface Fail - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/10\/27\/ical-interface-fail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"iCal Interface Fail - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You&#8217;d think that scheduling would be one of the easier problems to work out, but clearly there are these simple little constant fails. 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