daylight savings time, group schedules and chaos

[marrazl]

We have been using group schedules for tracking
availabiltiy of users for meetings, vacations, etc. We
noticed at the point of daylight savings time - several
of our users began reporting strange occurances on their
calendars. Some have had their appointments moved 1 hour,
while others have had appointments with the "all day
appointment" box checked span multiple dates. In some
instances the calendar appears correct on the users
desktop but when someone views it using group schedules,
it appears either one hour off or spanning multiple days.
I thought this might be an issue of mixed versions. Some
were XP and some were 2003. So I upgraded the Office XP
users to 2003 - nothing changed. Is there a way to fix
this issue? I have seen multiple variations of this
theme in this newsgroup. Apparently this is not an
isolated phenomonon. Is Microsoft intending to fix
this? This calendar offers nothing to us if we can't
believe the dates and/or times listed on the other users
calendar.

I've seen all the notes regarding KB 197850 & 197480 -
but the issue remains: these calendars are already messed
up. How do we fix this issue? We are talking about
executive level calendars with many appointments going
into the next year. It's a monumental task to correct
each appointment individually, not to mention - how do we
know which ones were changed by the daylight savings time
issue (not all appointments were affected). This has
never been an issue at daylight savings time before -
until the new versions of Office and the newer Microsoft
OS versions.
..

 

[Randy]

Marrazl said it very well. There is an issue here. Some
of our PC's have this problem and some don't, but it is an
issue with many Senior management in our College. Yes, we
can manually go to the affected PC's of our 350 computers
and fix it manually, but this problem has never happened
before even using the same install of software. We have
used our Windows98SE image through at least 3 changes of
daylight saving and had no problems so all these temporary
fixes I'm seeing in this newsgroup are only bandaids to
the real problem. Please address as a patch which, I'm
very sure is the problem.

If you need anymore info please ask and I'm sure we would
all be happy to provide.

What I am seeing is that the PC with the newer images on
aren't affected, but with the ones with the older images
are. Same OS, but the patches and whatnot are different.