Outlook Calendar changed all birthdays

[Annie Woughman]

Office 2003, Outlook on a Win7 computer. I have been using Outlook for
years, have 23 birthdays of friends and family to recur every year.
Sometime in the last two weeks, all of these birthdays showed up as one day
earlier. (I know it was two weeks because that was when I had addressed an
earlier birthday card and it was fine then. When I checked dates for the
next card to be addressed I noticed it was on the wrong date--so then I
started checking the rest and sure enough they were ALL set one day ahead.)
I had to go in and manually re-date all 23 and their future recurrences to
the correct date. Does anyone have any idea of why this would happen and
how I can keep it from happening again? All my appointments were OK, but
they were not all day events like the birthdays are.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Office 2003, Outlook on a Win7 computer. I have been using Outlook for
years, have 23 birthdays of friends and family to recur every year. Sometime
in the last two weeks, all of these birthdays showed up as one day earlier.
(I know it was two weeks because that was when I had addressed an earlier
birthday card and it was fine then. When I checked dates for the next card
to be addressed I noticed it was on the wrong date--so then I started
checking the rest and sure enough they were ALL set one day ahead.) I had to
go in and manually re-date all 23 and their future recurrences to the
correct date. Does anyone have any idea of why this would happen and how I
can keep it from happening again? All my appointments were OK, but they
were not all day events like the birthdays are.

Sounds like you either do not have daylight saving time set on your PC your
you have failed to install the DST/time zone updates.

 

[Annie Woughman]

Sounds like you either do not have daylight saving time set on your PC
your you have failed to install the DST/time zone updates.

Would these have installed with the regular Windows Updates? My computer is
set for automatic updates and it showed the right time on the morning of the
DST change. If not, how do I do this? The weirdest part was the actual
dates of the birthdays were changed an entire day. Like one on June 15
showed up as June 14 and also in the recurring series when I went to change
that it said "Occurs every June 14 effective 6/14/2005." I find it very
bizarre that the difference of one hour would so effectively change all of
them an entire day. I have had holidays and all day events span two days
before if they weren't set up correctly but never jump back an entire day.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Would these have installed with the regular Windows Updates? My computer is
set for automatic updates and it showed the right time on the morning of the
DST change. If not, how do I do this? The weirdest part was the actual
dates of the birthdays were changed an entire day. Like one on June 15
showed up as June 14 and also in the recurring series when I went to change
that it said "Occurs every June 14 effective 6/14/2005." I find it very
bizarre that the difference of one hour would so effectively change all of
them an entire day. I have had holidays and all day events span two days
before if they weren't set up correctly but never jump back an entire day.

Did you check the DST settings within Outlook's calendar as well?
Tools>Options>Calendar Options>Time Zone. If you open the item and look at
the start and end times, what do you see?

 

[Annie Woughman]

Did you check the DST settings within Outlook's calendar as well?
Tools>Options>Calendar Options>Time Zone. If you open the item and look
at the start and end times, what do you see?

Current Time Zone: (UTC - 8:00 Pacific Time) (US & Canada) and the box for
Adjust for daylight saving time is checked and the current time is correct.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Current Time Zone: (UTC - 8:00 Pacific Time) (US & Canada) and the box for
Adjust for daylight saving time is checked and the current time is correct.

I don't have an explanation. The only time I've seen this is when a time zone
update was missing.