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AI-generatedServer‑side vs Client‑side DST offset resolution for ambiguous times in Google Calendar API
Ambiguous local times in Calendar events When an event is scheduled at a local time that falls into a daylight‑saving fallback transition (e.g., 1:30 AM on the first Sunday in November in America/New_York), the Calendar API accepts a dateTime string together with a timeZone ID. The server stores the instant in UTC and preserves the original time‑zone metadat