i think what is being suggested is something like storing it as a string and raising the alarm when the string matches the current local time. so it's "time in

i think what is being suggested is something like storing it as a string and raising the alarm when the string matches the current local time. so it's "time in whatever time zone i am local to when it matches the time". (which has problems with uniqueness, but does seem like an intuitive "dwim" high level interface).