outlook countdown is always wrong

[Keith G Hicks]

Why is this? And has it been corrected in later verions (I'm using 2003)?

I have noticed this before and never paid much attention to it but it's
becoming VERY annoying. Right now it's 8AM Saturday. I have an appointment
set for Monday at 8AM. That's 2 full days from now. 48 hours is 2 days,
right? At least on Earth it is. So why does my reminder say it's in 1 day?
It counts backwards just fine. I had an apppointment set for Friday morning
that I didn't take off the calendar and it's saying that it's 1 day overdue.
So that's correct. What's up with the future stuff and is there a way to fix
this bug?

Thanks,

Keith

 

[Keith G Hicks]

Well I determined that if it's a minute less than 48 hours, it's considered
one day. So if my appointment is at 8AM Monday and it's now 8:01 AM
Saturday, it rounds it down to one day. How funny. Who coded this thing
anyway? Practically speaking, it's still 2 days away. Is there a setting in
Outlook that I can make to correct this? Something that will allow me to
change the way Outlook rounds countdown days? I mean I could understand if
it started saying "1 day from now" sometime later tonight, like around 8PM.
That would sort of make sense. But it DOES do minutes. In fact if I had an
appointment scheduled for 8 AM today, it tells me I'm 24 minutes overdue. So
why can't Outlook tell me that my Monday 8AM appointment is 1 day and 23
hours from now or something like that? How hard is that for Pete's sake?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, you can't change this rounding and it only will display in weeks, days,
hours or minutes. Is does not do combinations of those.