Outlook appointment times wrong for some but not all attendees

[Stephen Walter]

Here's one that's got me confused.

Our company is firmly located in one timezone, which is currently in
daylight savings time.

We have three users, A, B and C

User A just complained to me that she set up a meeting with herself and
users B and C as attendees. All accepted the meeting. Users A and B rolled
up to the meeting on time, but user C didn't. When questioned, user C said
he had the meeting in his calendar for one hour later.

Suspecting the obvious, I went and checked each of the machines in question
and found, to my surprise, that all three had the correct timezone set,
including the daylight savings flag, and they all had the same'ish correct
time set on their clocks. I checked the server and found it to be correct in
all of the above as well.

We're running Exchange server 2000 on Windows SBS 2000, with Outlook version
2000 on the client machines.

This one has got me flummoxed. I would expect a problem if user C had an
incorrect timezone and/or a bad setting of the daylight savings flag and/or
a bad time setting, but none of the above is true.

Any clues anyone?

Regards, Stephen Walter

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Here's one that's got me confused.

Our company is firmly located in one timezone, which is currently in
daylight savings time.

We have three users, A, B and C

User A just complained to me that she set up a meeting with herself
and users B and C as attendees. All accepted the meeting. Users A and
B rolled up to the meeting on time, but user C didn't. When
questioned, user C said he had the meeting in his calendar for one
hour later.

Suspecting the obvious, I went and checked each of the machines in
question and found, to my surprise, that all three had the correct
timezone set, including the daylight savings flag, and they all had
the same'ish correct time set on their clocks. I checked the server
and found it to be correct in all of the above as well.

We're running Exchange server 2000 on Windows SBS 2000, with Outlook
version 2000 on the client machines.

This one has got me flummoxed. I would expect a problem if user C had
an incorrect timezone and/or a bad setting of the daylight savings
flag and/or a bad time setting, but none of the above is true.

Any clues anyone?

Regards, Stephen Walter

Check in Outlook - tools, options, calendar options.

 

[Stephen Walter]

Hey Lanwench,

Thanks for the response. I should have mentioned in my original, that I had
checked the Calendar options as well on all three users. Nothing suspicious
there. I clicked the timezone button and saw that it had the right timezone
and DST setting.

Any other clues?

Regards, Stephen


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Stephen Walter]

Still got a problem with the following:

Here's one that's got me confused.

Our company is firmly located in one timezone, which is currently in
daylight savings time.

We have three users, A, B and C

User A just complained to me that she set up a meeting with herself and
users B and C as attendees. All accepted the meeting. Users A and B rolled
up to the meeting on time, but user C didn't. When questioned, user C said
he had the meeting in his calendar for one hour later.

Suspecting the obvious, I went and checked each of the machines in question
and found, to my surprise, that all three had the correct timezone set,
including the daylight savings flag, and they all had the same'ish correct
time set on their clocks. I checked the server and found it to be correct in
all of the above as well.

I also checked the settings in each Outlook client and found them to be
correct (i.e. consistent with the control panel settings) and identical in
each case.

We're running Exchange server 2000 on Windows SBS 2000, with Outlook version
2000 on the client machines.

This one has got me flummoxed. I would expect a problem if user C had an
incorrect timezone and/or a bad setting of the daylight savings flag and/or
a bad time setting, but none of the above is true.

Any clues anyone?

Regards Stephen Walter

 

[Greg Orlosky]

Still got a problem with the following:

Here's one that's got me confused.

Our company is firmly located in one timezone, which is currently in
daylight savings time.

We have three users, A, B and C

User A just complained to me that she set up a meeting with herself and
users B and C as attendees. All accepted the meeting. Users A and B rolled
up to the meeting on time, but user C didn't. When questioned, user C said
he had the meeting in his calendar for one hour later.

Suspecting the obvious, I went and checked each of the machines in question
and found, to my surprise, that all three had the correct timezone set,
including the daylight savings flag, and they all had the same'ish correct
time set on their clocks. I checked the server and found it to be correct in
all of the above as well.

I also checked the settings in each Outlook client and found them to be
correct (i.e. consistent with the control panel settings) and identical in
each case.

We're running Exchange server 2000 on Windows SBS 2000, with Outlook version
2000 on the client machines.

This one has got me flummoxed. I would expect a problem if user C had an
incorrect timezone and/or a bad setting of the daylight savings flag and/or
a bad time setting, but none of the above is true.

Any clues anyone?

Regards Stephen Walter

Perplexing indeed-
A related issue and fix I have seen before:
1) R these machines dual boot? This could possibly change the time at
each logon depending on the OS.
2) Try creating a simple batch file logon script for each user to
synch up with a server during every logon. As I mentioned, it can be a
very simple batch file with the following command 'net time
\\server_name /set /yes'. This ensures the time is always the same as
one of your servers at logon whether dual boot is an issue or not.
Just make sure that server's time is correct using a clock synching
program that has access outside of your firewall.

God luck