Changing time zones and syncing T3 and Outlook - TRAGIC

[Polaris]

I've sync'ed my Tungsten 3 with MS Outlook for about six months and was
quite proud of the searchable appointment history that doing so accumulated.
When I moved from San Francisco to Houston, something went terribly wrong
after I updated the time zone in both my computer and handheld. After
syncing, an all-day event such as a birthday was split across two days and
all other appointments were shifted two hours. Reversing my action only
generated duplicate appointments!

After crying for three days straight, I decided to purge everything in the
calendar before my move. How can I do this and avoid such a mess in the
future?

Thanks,
Billy

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Unfortunately the problem you described is a limitation of Outlook. The
appointment times don't stay put when you change time zone settings, or
daylight saving time settings. The following MSKB article illustrates the
only workaround I'm aware of...it's kludgy, but better than the alternative.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290835&Product=ol2002

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[Polaris]

Thanks, Jocelyn.

Unbelievably, I managed to undo the damage with the help of some
high-powered friends and a lot of manual keying. The secret is using
Outlook's Created field to separate duplicates and reselecting "all-day
event" for birthdays and all-day appointments.

I'd better stop moving from place to place or else Outlook will punish me
again!

Billy

 

[Guest]

I just had the same experience with my Palm. Thanks very much for the link to the instructions on how to deal with this, but WOW -- what a ridiculous problem with the software!! You'd think they could include a simple check-box that says "ignore time zones in outlook" -- I just spent hours re-doing appointments that had spread themselves over multiple days. Will this happen again when we change out of dayligt savings time??? Thanks again.