Calendar Times

[john]

I have quite a predicament. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I have many users whose desktop settings
were not set to automatically adjust for daylight
savings. This resulted in their calendars in Outlook 2K
being off. I tried to check the auto daylight savings but
this makes the appts appear 1 hour early. Any ideas???

thanks,
john

 

[Kevin]

I would appreciate some help on this one also. This is
remarkably frustrating and Microsoft just seems to
say, "oops. Try Service Pack 1." However, I have Service
Pack 3. I have hundreds of appointments that are wrong.
I can have my times correct in the calendar as long as my
computer's time is wrong, which screws up alarms and other
applications. This is unacceptable.

 

[James]

I'm having the same problem and many users are affected.
I've been searching for a fix for quite some time with no
luck yet.

 

[Doug in Silicon Valley]

I would like to throw a 'me too' in here. I have a user
whose calendar is now hosed because of this. Any fix
would be greatly appreciated!

Doug

 

[Guest]

Some one please answer this post!!!! We have tons of
users with the same problem since the time change this
weekend.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

One solution is to adjust the computer time so that the calendar times are
OK. Then export the calendar to Excel or text. Correct the system time, copy
the calendar items to another folder for backup, then import from the
exported file.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[David Dziuk]

If I do this I will end up with duplicate appointments
because I cannot clear the appointments in the original
calendar and the new appointments are 1 hour different or
did I do something wrong?

 

[Guest]

That's not a fix. It will be a problem again when we go
off of DST. You would think that after all of the work
people went through to avoid Y2K problems, Mocrosoft could
come up with a solution for this.

 

[Guest]

I got the same delima. In Outlook 2003 - Help, I ran a query on "Daylight Savings Time". From the 30 replys, I selected "Troubleshoot Time Zones" and at least found a reasonable explanation

This is by design. The meeting organizer's time zone controls the Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) of the meeting, and all people in other time zones will see the meetings at the same UTC (but a different local time if in another time zone).

I guess an appointment is just like a meeting with yourself. Must be coded so that all calendar items use UTC instead of system time. Sorry, I know this isn't an answer, but I am looking for one myself.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes you can clear the appointments. Try using the By Category view.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No it shouldn't, If you have the times set up correctly, and the machine
set to automatically adjust for DST, everything will so smoothly at the next
time change.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Different issue -- this is the one that affects meetings organized among
people in different time zones.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I got the same delima. In Outlook 2003 - Help, I ran a query on "Daylight

Savings Time". From the 30 replys, I selected "Troubleshoot Time Zones" and
at least found a reasonable explanation:

This is by design. The meeting organizer's time zone controls the

Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) of the meeting, and all people in other
time zones will see the meetings at the same UTC (but a different local time
if in another time zone).

I guess an appointment is just like a meeting with yourself. Must be

coded so that all calendar items use UTC instead of system time. Sorry, I
know this isn't an answer, but I am looking for one myself.

 

[David Dziuk]

This works fine but it asks for every invited appointment
if I wish to delete and send a response or not. Okay for
the casual user but not for people like C-level (CEO,CFO)
personnel who get invited to everything. Any option to
say "yes to all"?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't know of any way to override that dialog.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Kevin]

Thanks for the information, Sue. However, I think there
is a problem if you use reoccurring appointments -- you
lose the reoccurrence. For instance, I have three shifts
working 24X7 on a bizarre nine day rotation that lasts
indefinitely. Not to mention, birthdays and
anniversaries for 400+ contacts. I really don't want to
lose or rebuild those reoccurring appointments. Anyone
have any ideas on reoccurring appointments? The
frustrating thing is Microsoft described the problem and
developed fix for the problem in OL2002 SP1, but we use
SP3, you would think they would have reissued the fix in
SP3.

 

[MyraB]

We're having the same issue on our CEO's laptop -- some
appointments and meetings were affected and some weren't.
There's no pattern to what changed at all. Anyway, on the
suggestion of Microsoft tech support, I changed the time
on the computer to follow the steps suggested by Sue, and
the known incorrect appointments did not change. Our CEO
still had all day events spanning two days, and Palm
Sunday showed up on Tuesday. If there's any resolution at
all, we need to know what it is.

 

[Guest]

We are experiencing the same thing. Appointments after DST are all off 1 hour. I've searched the web high and low and found no solution. I hope Microsoft fixes this soon
----- john wrote: ----

I have quite a predicament. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I have many users whose desktop settings
were not set to automatically adjust for daylight
savings. This resulted in their calendars in Outlook 2K
being off. I tried to check the auto daylight savings but
this makes the appts appear 1 hour early. Any ideas??

thanks
joh

 

[th]

Untrue Sue -- we've had to deal with this twice now. For
us, it happens on most (not all) recurring appointments.
If you open the appointment, it says 8am start; however,
the calendar shows a 9am start. My resolution? I'm *not*
purchasing Outlook 2003 and am looking at other
companies' software instead.