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Because users don't think about "time at a location" and they may not even have a location when they schedule a time. Both parties may say " yeah, meet at 4:30" with the knowledge that it could be my house in DST or your house in MST but we haven't decided yet, we'll figure that out in the future, but it'll be at 4:30.

That's a time outside of a location which works for the humans involved but which is completely unresolvable by the "time at a location" computer paradigm.

People do stuff like this all the time and don't think about it and it's unresolvable and not consistent.



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