M
msargent
No one in my office can even tell me if I did this right.
I scheduled a monthly meeting at 12:00 Eastern time with a
call in number. I sent out a meeting request through
Outlook to people all over North America in all 4 time
zones. Here's the problem - I'm in Indiana and we don't
observe Daylight Savings time. So I was told by
our "Microsoft Office" expert to send out the request
stating the meeting is from 11-12. That's fine for this
month and the next because currently we are lined up with
Central Time so it would be 11:00 my time. Sure enough,
when people accepted the meeting, it moved the meeting to
adjust with my time after the time zone change this fall,
instead of fixing it at 12:00 Eastern. Before I sent this
out I tried to find a way to set up the meeting and
specify Eastern time but there seems to be no way to do
that. Outlook seems to assume that you want the meeting
set up based on whatever time zone you are in. That's
fine if your time doesn't change relative to the other
time zones. At least one person has suggested that
everyone else's calendars will change for this meeting
after the time zone change. I don't think that makes
sense. So now it's scheduled for 18 straight months on my
calendar at 11:00 and other Central zone people for
example have it at 11:00 for the next couple of months and
then 10:00. There is a time zone setting on computers for
Indiana time so perhaps this will work out right, but I
have no idea. Thoughts?
I scheduled a monthly meeting at 12:00 Eastern time with a
call in number. I sent out a meeting request through
Outlook to people all over North America in all 4 time
zones. Here's the problem - I'm in Indiana and we don't
observe Daylight Savings time. So I was told by
our "Microsoft Office" expert to send out the request
stating the meeting is from 11-12. That's fine for this
month and the next because currently we are lined up with
Central Time so it would be 11:00 my time. Sure enough,
when people accepted the meeting, it moved the meeting to
adjust with my time after the time zone change this fall,
instead of fixing it at 12:00 Eastern. Before I sent this
out I tried to find a way to set up the meeting and
specify Eastern time but there seems to be no way to do
that. Outlook seems to assume that you want the meeting
set up based on whatever time zone you are in. That's
fine if your time doesn't change relative to the other
time zones. At least one person has suggested that
everyone else's calendars will change for this meeting
after the time zone change. I don't think that makes
sense. So now it's scheduled for 18 straight months on my
calendar at 11:00 and other Central zone people for
example have it at 11:00 for the next couple of months and
then 10:00. There is a time zone setting on computers for
Indiana time so perhaps this will work out right, but I
have no idea. Thoughts?