Personally, I think that it is essential that appointments time-shift. For a lot of us on outlook, meeting invites already account for time zone, and it is very handy that these meetings time-shift on my N900 as I travel from time-zone to time-zone. For example, I am in metro New York, and my calendar shows a 9AM client meeting in Frankfurt later this week. This, of course, is equivalent to 3PM local Frankfurt time. I like that when I am in Germany later this week, my schedule will show that the meeting is at 3, so I don't look like a fool walking in to the client site at 9.

Different strokes for different strokes, I guess. But, there are a couple of options for you:

1. If you are entering meeting times on your n900, always enter the time equivalent for your current time zone. So if I entered that 3PM Frankfurt meeting when I was in New York, I would have entered it as 9AM.

2. You can set your local time to whatever you want. You can disable the option to retrieve your time and time-zone information from you cell carrier and just enter that information yourself.