[Remind-Fans] Different timezones in the same file / view?

[Jag Talon]

Ah this is great thank you so much, Dianne! I'll try this out!

On 2/25/24 8:38 PM, Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:46:54 -0500
> Jag Talon via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
> 
>> I'll be traveling soon, and I was thinking of a scenario where I get
>> to keep the reminders that I have from home (and be set at the right
>> time) while also being able to set reminders relevant for my new
>> location.
> 
> Remind is not spectacular at handling time zones.  All times in reminder
> files are interpreted in the local time zone.  If you want to make
> a non-repeating reminder in a specific time zone, you could do something
> like this:
> 
> REM [tzconvert('2024-02-28 at 09:00', "Canada/Pacific")] MSG whatever
> 
> which would always be triggered at 9:00AM Pacific time on February 28,
> 2024, no matter what the local time on your computer is.  If you don't
> mind always expressing your reminders in UTC, you can use utctolocal instead:
> 
> REM [utctolocal('2024-02-28 at 17:00')] MSG whatever
> 
> which is triggered at 5:00PM on 2024-02-28, UTC, which happens to be the
> same as 9:00AM Pacific.
> 
> For repeating reminders, it's much trickier because changing time zones
> can change the date.  If you are sure this won't happen, you can
> express all of the times in UTC and adjust as follows:
> 
> REM Tuesday AT [14:00 + $MinsFromUTC] MSG foo
> 
> This will trigger every Tuesday at 14:00 UTC no matter what time zone your
> computer is in *assuming* that $MinsFromUTC is not so high that the time
> goes backwards or forwards past midnight.  Not a great solution, but it
> does work for many use cases.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dianne.
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