Calendar question

[Bob]

Some people are using their department calendar to post if someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on one single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else's computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared calendar, the
appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the day before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This in spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring appointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Bob

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The two machines are set for different time zones or have different Daylight
Savings Time settings.

 

[Bob]

Sue, I'm confused by your response: "The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Time settings."

I have checked and all the machines are set for the same time zone. I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time settings, but I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.

But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these settings would make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one computer, to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when the appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?

We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same department,
today. A number of department employees have permissions to place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, the originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another employee viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe computer) and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at 1pm. But
when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog box shows it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can schedule each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, time off, etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee entered a 4pm
break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn't see that
4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The second
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyone else does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty bizarre, even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Perfect Reign]

Sue, I'm confused by your response: "The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Time settings."

Huh? I don't see any response above yours.

 

[Bob]

I find this newsgroup terribly confusing as to the mechanics; I guess
I'm used to email listservs more than newsgroups.
Below, I've copied into this reply, several items: my original
question, Sue Mosher's "different time zone" response which I couldn't
figure out, and the response I submitted with the additional
information that appears below, under my phrase, "Sue, I'm confused by
your response." Hope my copy and paste approach doesn't do too much
duplication, but I really need to figure out the answer to this
problem.

Thanks, in advance, for your help!

Bob

Some people are using their department calendar to post if someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on one single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else's computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared calendar, the
appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the day before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This in spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring appointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?


Bob


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The two machines are set for different time zones or have different
Daylight
Savings Time settings.


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






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Some people are using their department calendar to post if someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on one single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else's computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared calendar, the
appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the day before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This in spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring appointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Bob

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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "


The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Time settings


.."

I have checked and all the machines are set for the same time zone. I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time settings, but I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.


But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these settings would make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one computer, to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when the appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?


We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same department,
today. A number of department employees have permissions to place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, the originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another employee viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe computer) and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at 1pm. But
when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog box shows it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can schedule each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, time off, etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee entered a 4pm
break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn't see that
4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The second
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyone else does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty bizarre, even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook stores an all-day event as an appointment that runs from 12 a.m. to
12 a.m. So, say I'm in Eastern time zone and you're in Central. If you open
that same appointment on your machine, it won't be an all day appointment.
It will be set to start at 12 a.m. Eastern time, but since you're in Central
time, that's 11 p.m., so you'll see that appointment as spanning 2 days --
frm 11 p.m. one day to 11 p.m. the next.

So, the next step to try to resolve the issue is to check the time zone
settings and daylight savings time settings on the different client machines
involved. The easiest way to do that is to right-click the time display in
the Windows system tray and choose Adjust Date/TIme. It sounds like you've
done that, but you might want to check again now that (hopefully) you
understand the issue a little better.

This is the most common issue that fits at least some of the symptoms you
describe. Of course, you might be running into something completely
different and even previously unknown. I certainly can't explain the odd
behavior on delegated calendars.

What version of Outlook is involved?

The Google groups interface has a reply command, but you must be logged in
to use it.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I find this newsgroup terribly confusing as to the mechanics; I guess
I'm used to email listservs more than newsgroups.
Below, I've copied into this reply, several items: my original
question, Sue Mosher's "different time zone" response which I couldn't
figure out, and the response I submitted with the additional
information that appears below, under my phrase, "Sue, I'm confused by
your response." Hope my copy and paste approach doesn't do too much
duplication, but I really need to figure out the answer to this
problem.

Thanks, in advance, for your help!

Bob

Some people are using their department calendar to post if someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on one single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else's computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared calendar, the
appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the day before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This in spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring appointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?


Bob


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The two machines are set for different time zones or have different
Daylight
Savings Time settings.

 

[Bob]

Sue,

All of the affected computers are using Outlook 2002.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

And what is the issue with them? The newsgroup interface you are using
apparently does not quote earlier messages in the thread, making your latest
message so short on detail that you risk not getting the answer you're
looking for. Please take the time to quote the original message.

 

[Bob]

Sue, I'm not getting the hang of displaying the message I'm responding
to, so I just copied and pasted all of the history of my
correspondence, and the responses received, below.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong to not display the message I'm
responding to. I had assumed it was like an email reply that the
message to which you were responding was automatically quoted, unless
you deleted some or all of it.

Hope the text below is not too confusing, but I think it is pretty
complete.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Bob

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Some people are using their department calendar to post if s­omeone is

sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on one­ single
day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else's ­computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared calend­ar, the
appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment l­asting
from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the day ­before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This in ­spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring appo­intment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?


Bob


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The two machines are set for different time zones or have di­fferent
Daylight
Savings Time settings.


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








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Some people are using their department calendar to post if­ someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on o­ne single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else'­s computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared cale­ndar, the

appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment­ lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the da­y before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This i­n spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring ap­pointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Bob

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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "


The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Time­ settings



.."

I have checked and all the machines are set for the same tim­e zone.
I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time sett­ings, but
I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.


But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these settings ­would
make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one co­mputer,
to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when the
­appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?


We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same dep­artment,
today. A number of department employees have permissions to ­place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, the­
originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another empl­oyee
viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe com­puter)
and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at 1­pm. But
when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog bo­x shows
it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can sc­hedule
each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, tim­e off,
etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee ente­red a 4pm

break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn't­ see that

4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The sec­ond
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyone ­else
does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty biz­arre,
even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be appre­ciated.


Thanks!



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Some people are using their department calendar to post if­ someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on o­ne single
day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else'­s computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared cale­ndar, the

appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment­ lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the da­y before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This i­n spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring ap­pointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Bob

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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "The two machines are ­set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Ti­me

settings."



Huh? I don't see any response above yours.

--
kai
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I find this newsgroup terribly confusing as to the mechanics­; I guess

I'm used to email listservs more than newsgroups.
Below, I've copied into this reply, several items: my origi­nal
question, Sue Mosher's "different time zone" response which ­I
couldn't
figure out, and the response I submitted with the additional
information that appears below, under my phrase, "Sue, I'm c­onfused
by
your response." Hope my copy and paste approach doesn't do t­oo much
duplication, but I really need to figure out the answer to t­his
problem.


Thanks, in advance, for your help!


Bob




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Some people are using their department calendar to post if s­omeone is

sick
or
out
on
vacation
.. When
they
post
such
an
entry
on
one
single
day
(say
January
5
, 2005
) in
Outlook
, then
go
to
someone
else's
computer
and
look
at
that
same
appointment
on
that
same
shared
calendar
, the
appointment
has
changed
: it
now
is
a
recurring
appointment
lasting
from
today
(the
day
the
appointment
was
entered
) through
the
day
before
(1
/4
/05
) the
day
for
which
they
posted
it
(1
/5
/05
). This
in
spite
of
the
fact
that
it
was
clearly
not
entered
as
a
recurring
appointment
..
Any
thoughts
on
why
this
is
happening
?
Bob


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The two machines are set for different time zones or have di­fferent
Daylight
Savings
Time
settings
..
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



....

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Some people are using their department calendar to post if­ someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on o­ne single
day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else'­s computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared cale­ndar, the

appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment­ lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the da­y before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This i­n spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring ap­pointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?
Bob

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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "
The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Time­ settings

.."
I have checked and all the machines are set for the same tim­e zone.
I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time sett­ings, but
I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.
But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these settings ­would
make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one co­mputer,
to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when the
­appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?
We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same dep­artment,
today. A number of department employees have permissions to ­place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, the­
originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another empl­oyee
viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe com­puter)
and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at 1­pm. But
when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog bo­x shows
it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can sc­hedule
each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, tim­e off,
etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee ente­red a 4pm

break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn't­ see that

4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The sec­ond
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyone ­else
does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty biz­arre,
even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be appre­ciated.
Thanks


!

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Outlook stores an all-day event as an appointment that runs ­from 12
a.m. to
12 a.m. So, say I'm in Eastern time zone and you're in Centr­al. If
you open
that same appointment on your machine, it won't be an all da­y
appointment.
It will be set to start at 12 a.m. Eastern time, but since y­ou're in
Central
time, that's 11 p.m., so you'll see that appointment as span­ning 2
days --
frm 11 p.m. one day to 11 p.m. the next.


So, the next step to try to resolve the issue is to check th­e time
zone
settings and daylight savings time settings on the different­ client
machines
involved. The easiest way to do that is to right-click the t­ime
display in
the Windows system tray and choose Adjust Date/TIme. It soun­ds like
you've
done that, but you might want to check again now that (hopef­ully) you

understand the issue a little better.


This is the most common issue that fits at least some of the­ symptoms
you
describe. Of course, you might be running into something com­pletely
different and even previously unknown. I certainly can't exp­lain the
odd
behavior on delegated calendars.


What version of Outlook is involved?


The Google groups interface has a reply command, but you mus­t be
logged in
to use it.
--



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

news


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I find this newsgroup terribly confusing as to the mechanic­s; I guess
I'm used to email listservs more than newsgroups.
Below, I've copied into this reply, several items: my ori­ginal
question, Sue Mosher's "different time zone" response whic­h I couldn't
figure out, and the response I submitted with the addition­al
information that appears below, under my phrase, "Sue, I'm­ confused by
your response." Hope my copy and paste approach doesn't do­ too much

duplication, but I really need to figure out the answer to­ this
problem.

Thanks, in advance, for your help!



Some people are using their department calendar to post if­ someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on o­ne single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else'­s computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared cale­ndar, the

appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment­ lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the da­y before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This i­n spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring ap­pointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Bob

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The two machines are set for different time zones or have ­different

Daylight
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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "

The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Ti­me setting




I have checked and all the machines are set for the same t­ime zone. I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time se­ttings, but I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.

But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these setting­s would make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one ­computer, to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when th­e appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?

We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same d­epartment,
today. A number of department employees have permissions t­o place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, t­he originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another em­ployee viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe c­omputer) and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at­ 1pm. But

when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog ­box shows it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can ­schedule each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, t­ime off, etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee en­tered a 4pm
break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn­'t see that
4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The s­econd
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyon­e else does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty b­izarre, even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be app­reciated.

Thanks!

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Sue,


All of the affected computers are using Outlook 2002.


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And what is the issue with them? The newsgroup interface you­ are
using
apparently does not quote earlier messages in the thread, ma­king your
latest
message so short on detail that you risk not getting the ans­wer
you're
looking for. Please take the time to quote the original mess­age.


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Sue,

All of the affected computers are using Outlook 2002.

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I believe I'm having similar issues. one of the secretaries has access to the
bosses calendar. on his calendar it shows a 1 hour meeting, on hers it shows
up on the day she typed in the entry in until its over, which is very
confusing. especially if she types it in a week or two in advance. we also
run Outlook 2002, on XP machines.

Sue, I'm not getting the hang of displaying the message I'm responding
to, so I just copied and pasted all of the history of my
correspondence, and the responses received, below.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong to not display the message I'm
responding to. I had assumed it was like an email reply that the
message to which you were responding was automatically quoted, unless
you deleted some or all of it.

Hope the text below is not too confusing, but I think it is pretty
complete.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Bob

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Some people are using their department calendar to post if s­omeone is

sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on one­ single
day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else's ­computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared calend­ar, the
appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment l­asting
from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the day ­before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This in ­spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring appo­intment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?


Bob


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The two machines are set for different time zones or have di­fferent
Daylight
Savings Time settings.


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








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Some people are using their department calendar to post if­ someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on o­ne single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else'­s computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared cale­ndar, the

appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment­ lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the da­y before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This i­n spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring ap­pointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Bob

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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "


The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Time­ settings



.."

I have checked and all the machines are set for the same tim­e zone.
I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time sett­ings, but
I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.


But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these settings ­would
make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one co­mputer,
to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when the
­appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?


We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same dep­artment,
today. A number of department employees have permissions to ­place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, the­
originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another empl­oyee
viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe com­puter)
and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at 1­pm. But
when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog bo­x shows
it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can sc­hedule
each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, tim­e off,
etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee ente­red a 4pm

break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn't­ see that

4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The sec­ond
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyone ­else
does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty biz­arre,
even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be appre­ciated.


Thanks!



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Some people are using their department calendar to post if­ someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on o­ne single
day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else'­s computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared cale­ndar, the

appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment­ lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the da­y before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This i­n spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring ap­pointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Bob

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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "The two machines are ­set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Ti­me

settings."



Huh? I don't see any response above yours.

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kai
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I find this newsgroup terribly confusing as to the mechanics­; I guess

I'm used to email listservs more than newsgroups.
Below, I've copied into this reply, several items: my origi­nal
question, Sue Mosher's "different time zone" response which ­I
couldn't
figure out, and the response I submitted with the additional
information that appears below, under my phrase, "Sue, I'm c­onfused
by
your response." Hope my copy and paste approach doesn't do t­oo much
duplication, but I really need to figure out the answer to t­his
problem.


Thanks, in advance, for your help!


Bob




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Some people are using their department calendar to post if s­omeone is

sick
or
out
on
vacation
.. When
they
post
such
an
entry
on
one
single
day
(say
January
5
, 2005
) in
Outlook
, then
go
to
someone
else's
computer
and
look
at
that
same
appointment
on
that
same
shared
calendar
, the
appointment
has
changed
: it
now
is
a
recurring
appointment
lasting
from
today
(the
day
the
appointment
was
entered
) through
the
day
before
(1
/4
/05
) the
day
for
which
they
posted
it
(1
/5
/05
). This
in
spite
of
the
fact
that
it
was
clearly
not
entered
as
a
recurring
appointment
..
Any
thoughts
on
why
this
is
happening
?
Bob


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The two machines are set for different time zones or have di­fferent
Daylight
Savings
Time
settings
..
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



....

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Some people are using their department calendar to post if­ someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on o­ne single
day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else'­s computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared cale­ndar, the

appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment­ lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the da­y before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This i­n spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring ap­pointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?
Bob

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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "
The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Time­ settings

.."
I have checked and all the machines are set for the same tim­e zone.
I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time sett­ings, but
I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.
But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these settings ­would
make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one co­mputer,
to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when the
­appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?
We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same dep­artment,
today. A number of department employees have permissions to ­place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, the­
originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another empl­oyee
viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe com­puter)
and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at 1­pm. But
when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog bo­x shows
it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can sc­hedule
each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, tim­e off,
etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee ente­red a 4pm

break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn't­ see that

4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The sec­ond
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyone ­else
does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty biz­arre,
even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be appre­ciated.
Thanks


!

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Outlook stores an all-day event as an appointment that runs ­from 12
a.m. to
12 a.m. So, say I'm in Eastern time zone and you're in Centr­al. If
you open
that same appointment on your machine, it won't be an all da­y
appointment.
It will be set to start at 12 a.m. Eastern time, but since y­ou're in
Central
time, that's 11 p.m., so you'll see that appointment as span­ning 2
days --
frm 11 p.m. one day to 11 p.m. the next.


So, the next step to try to resolve the issue is to check th­e time
zone
settings and daylight savings time settings on the different­ client
machines
involved. The easiest way to do that is to right-click the t­ime
display in
the Windows system tray and choose Adjust Date/TIme. It soun­ds like
you've
done that, but you might want to check again now that (hopef­ully) you

understand the issue a little better.


This is the most common issue that fits at least some of the­ symptoms
you
describe. Of course, you might be running into something com­pletely
different and even previously unknown. I certainly can't exp­lain the
odd
behavior on delegated calendars.


What version of Outlook is involved?


The Google groups interface has a reply command, but you mus­t be
logged in
to use it.
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Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

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I find this newsgroup terribly confusing as to the mechanic­s; I guess
I'm used to email listservs more than newsgroups.
Below, I've copied into this reply, several items: my ori­ginal
question, Sue Mosher's "different time zone" response whic­h I couldn't
figure out, and the response I submitted with the addition­al
information that appears below, under my phrase, "Sue, I'm­ confused by
your response." Hope my copy and paste approach doesn't do­ too much

duplication, but I really need to figure out the answer to­ this
problem.

Thanks, in advance, for your help!



Some people are using their department calendar to post if­ someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on o­ne single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else'­s computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared cale­ndar, the

appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment­ lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the da­y before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This i­n spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring ap­pointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Bob

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The two machines are set for different time zones or have ­different

Daylight
Savings Time settings.



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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "

The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Ti­me setting




I have checked and all the machines are set for the same t­ime zone. I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time se­ttings, but I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.

But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these setting­s would make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one ­computer, to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when th­e appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?

We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same d­epartment,
today. A number of department employees have permissions t­o place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, t­he originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another em­ployee viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe c­omputer) and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at­ 1pm. But

when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog ­box shows it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can ­schedule each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, t­ime off, etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee en­tered a 4pm
break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn­'t see that
4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The s­econd
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyon­e else does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty b­izarre, even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be app­reciated.

Thanks!

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Sue,


All of the affected computers are using Outlook 2002.


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And what is the issue with them? The newsgroup interface you­ are
using
apparently does not quote earlier messages in the thread, ma­king your
latest
message so short on detail that you risk not getting the ans­wer
you're
looking for. Please take the time to quote the original mess­age.


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Sue,

All of the affected computers are using Outlook 2002.

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