Do you travel?  Need to schedule an event during your trip that’s in another time zone?  Presdo now has much improved support for handling events in different time zones.

Let’s say you’re on the west coast, and you plan to travel to the east coast for a business trip.  You need to schedule a meeting for 10am EST with a business partner on the east coast.

Forget about having to do the math.  Just type “10am EST” when creating the event.  Presdo creates an event with a time of 10am, but the time will be 10am east coast time instead of 10am west coast time.  The event’s time zone is also set to the east coast time zone, which means all exchanges about times with your guest will be interpreted relative to east coast time.

If you are tracking multiple events with Presdo, and you have other events in west coast time and now a new event on east coast time, take a look at your upcoming events page:

See how Presdo keeps track of times in different time zones for you instead of confusingly shifting the times like on some calendars?

Presdo recognizes time zone designators after times, and it works for both US and worldwide time zones, including designators like “GMT+1″.

And there are a couple more ways to set an event’s time zone:

• Pick one from the time editor on the event page.  You can see a list of time zones for all worldwide locations.

• Pick a location for the event.  If the location is in another time zone, the event’s time zone is automatically changed to the time zone at the location.  It’s very cool.

While designators like “EST” are convenient for setting the time zone, they aren’t unique worldwide, so use the other ways if typing the designator isn’t working out for you.

There’s more information in our help on time zone support.

Can it get any easier?  Let us know!

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