All Day appointment east coast vs. west coast

[David Lewis]

When someone on the east coast sends me an apointment they select an all day
event.
On their calendar its 12:00am to 12:00am
On my calendar the meeting request spans 2 days from 9:00pm day one to
9:00pm day 2
This behavior happens with public folder calendars also
My corporate offices are on the east coast and I am on the west coast.
We are using Exchange 2007. Most are using Outlook 2003 but I have
confirmed the behavior on Outlook 2003 and 2007
I am getting tired of manually fixing every all day meeting request that I
get.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

When someone on the east coast sends me an apointment they select an all day
event.
On their calendar its 12:00am to 12:00am
On my calendar the meeting request spans 2 days from 9:00pm day one to
9:00pm day 2
This behavior happens with public folder calendars also

The last time I checked, midnght on the west coast is 3:00 AM on the east
coast, so that's what you should see as the start time. Sounds like one of
you has the wrong time zone settings.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

the op is on the west coast - my midnight is his 9 pm, so the times are
correct and outlook is behaving correctly.

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[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

the op is on the west coast - my midnight is his 9 pm, so the times are
correct and outlook is behaving correctly.

Oops. Yes, I got them backward.

 

[David Lewis]

I am opening my calendar on 2 different computers
Both computers have the time zone set at Pacific Time

When I open an all day event for this Thursday, on my 2 PC's it says
Start time Thur 4/23 9:00pm, end time Fri 4/24 9:00pm

If I change my time zone to Eastern then all of the all day calendar items
show up properly.

This is happening with both Outlook 2003 & 2007

 

[David Lewis]

How can outlook be performing correctly
Its an all day appointment, not a timed appointment.
If someone on the east coast sends me an appointment for 1:00pm EST then it
comes out correctly at 10:00am PST
The issue is just with all day appointments

the op is on the west coast - my midnight is his 9 pm, so the times are
correct and outlook is behaving correctly.

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The last time I checked, midnght on the west coast is 3:00 AM on the east
coast, so that's what you should see as the start time. Sounds like one
of you has the wrong time zone settings.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

How can outlook be performing correctly
Its an all day appointment, not a timed appointment.

Do you mean a day doesn't start at midnight on the east coast? All day events
do have a start time and that's midnight in the time zone in which they were
created. That's 9:00 PM on the west coast.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I am opening my calendar on 2 different computers
Both computers have the time zone set at Pacific Time

When I open an all day event for this Thursday, on my 2 PC's it says
Start time Thur 4/23 9:00pm, end time Fri 4/24 9:00pm

Correct. The event was created to start at midnight in the Eastern time zone.
That's 9:00 PM the day before for you. Seems correct to me. All day events
are timed events too (although presented a little differently), with the start
time of 12:00 AM and an end time of 12:00 AM the next day. Outlook always
changes the event to match the local time zone. Everything is kept in UTC
internally. You want an event that slides with the time zone, not one that
doesn't change. Outlook doesn't do that, although Outlook 2007 lets you
specify the time zone of the event when you create it, rather that always
using the local time zone.

 

[David Lewis]

ok we have a vacation calendar where it only has all day events
I need to view the calendar
The majority of the staff is on the eastern time zone
For me it looks like everyone is taking a 2 day vacation instead of a one
day
How we we work around this?
I cannot change my time zone to eastern as it would mess up my personal
calendar

 

[David Lewis]

So no opinions on a solution?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

ok we have a vacation calendar where it only has all day events
I need to view the calendar
The majority of the staff is on the eastern time zone
For me it looks like everyone is taking a 2 day vacation instead of a one
day
How we we work around this?
I cannot change my time zone to eastern as it would mess up my personal
calendar

Why not add the Eastern time zone to your calendar? Outlook allows the
displaying of two zones. Tools>Options>Calendar Options>Time Zone>Show an
additional tome zone

 

[David Lewis]

Yes I played with that but it still does not display all day appointments
properly.
When I open one of the appointments in the public folder, the All Day event
is no longer checked.
One day events are still panning across 2 days instead of just one