Outlook books appointments one hour later than on invite.

[Parthenolide]

I am using the KDE program Kontact to send appointments to Outlook users, and
Google calendar users. Appointments sent to Google work exactly as expected.
Appointments sent to Outlook are adjusted to one hour later than expected.

Kontact sends appointment invitations using a cal.ics file. The Kontact
program is unchanged since last fall, and has worked with Outlook until the
latest daylight saving time change. The return file being sent from Outlook
indicates that time is UTC-8 (Pacific Standard Time,) versus UTC-7 (Pacific
Daylight Time).

I suspect that the Outlook program is expecting invitation times to be sent
in standard time. Upon receipt, it adjusts for DST on the local host. Since
Kontact is already sending time in DST, the extra adjustment is putting the
invite into the wrong hour. Note: the time zone being used for the Kontact
program is "Los Angeles/US Pacific Time".

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I am using the KDE program Kontact to send appointments to Outlook users, and
Google calendar users. Appointments sent to Google work exactly as expected.
Appointments sent to Outlook are adjusted to one hour later than expected.

Kontact sends appointment invitations using a cal.ics file. The Kontact
program is unchanged since last fall, and has worked with Outlook until the
latest daylight saving time change. The return file being sent from Outlook
indicates that time is UTC-8 (Pacific Standard Time,) versus UTC-7 (Pacific
Daylight Time).

I suspect that the Outlook program is expecting invitation times to be sent
in standard time. Upon receipt, it adjusts for DST on the local host. Since
Kontact is already sending time in DST, the extra adjustment is putting the
invite into the wrong hour. Note: the time zone being used for the Kontact
program is "Los Angeles/US Pacific Time".

Thanks for the information. I don't see any questions, though.