[alanfranz]

I'm sorry for the late response; yes, you are right that for future events the "right way to do it" is saving the place + local time. I think we were speaking of slightly different things.

[brewmarche]

No problem. Yes this is for future events where we want to coordinate people at a certain place.

For recording when something happened use UTC or UTC plus fixed offset.

Do you have a third context of using time?