Times are showing wrong on shared calendar

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Victoria Bolton

We have 1 persons calendar that is shared to about 8 other people. This
person is running Office 2003. The other users are running Office 2000.

We have a problem that is showing up inconsistantly. Some appointments are
showing up an hour ahead of what they are meant to be. This is happening to
all users that I can tell, including the original calendar. I cannot see any
pattern to the ones that are showing wrong. I have checked the system date
and time on each persons computer and it is correct. I have checked the time
zone info in Outlook itself (under calendar options) this is correct. The
options are all identically set on each machine.

If I correct the incorrect time it show up on other peoples machines an hour
earlier. When I was looking at the original calendar earlier I opened the
timezone dialog under calendar options, looked and clicked ok. I didn't
actually change anything, the calendar behind refreshed and all the
incorrect times became correct.

On looking at the calendar on another persons machine 5 mins later they were
showing some of the times to be an hour ahead of what they were meant to be.
I tried looking at the timezone info again but it didn't correct anything
this time.

Can anyone give any pointers here? It's causing havoc with scheduling this
persons time, especially when it's so inconsistant. Monday and tuesday will
be fine, but wednesday will be all out by an hour.

Thanks

Victoria
 
Just discovered the same problem with my users today. I
have searched all over and haven't found a fix yet. This
is the first place that I've found the same exact problem
going on for someone else. I'll post a resolution if I
find one. Please do the same if you do. Thanks.
 
RFromm said:
Go to TOOLS>OPTIONS>CALENDAR... in the lower right hand side look for time
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zone and correct it to match your time zone. Make sure all users are on the
right time zone. An EST user posting to PST system will find all of their
appointments show up on the system 3 hours early.

Thankyou but as I said in my original message I had checked all the timezone
information in both operating system and within outlook and it is all
correct. All users are in the same building.

Thanks for the thought though.

Victoria
 
I am also having the same problem with one user. Part of my office went
from Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2003, the first batch before migrating all
to Outlook 2003/Exchange 2000. We are currently on Exchange 5.5.

When the user first noticed her Outlook showing an hour lag on some of
the recurring appts for her delegated calendars, we discovered the time
zone did not have daylight savings time option on. That seemed to fix
the problem... temporarily. She just informed me that she's having the
same problem. The calendar she schedules for is still on Outlook 2002.


Any thoughts? Suggestions?
 
I am also having the same problem with one user. Part of my office wen
from Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2003, the first batch before migrating al
to Outlook 2003/Exchange 2000. We are currently on Exchange 5.5.

When the user first noticed her Outlook showing an hour lag on some o
the recurring appts for her delegated calendars, we discovered the tim
zone did not have daylight savings time option on. That seemed to fi
the problem... temporarily. She just informed me that she's having th
same problem. The calendar she schedules for is still on Outlook 2002


Any thoughts? Suggestions
 
Our calendar was created with Outlook 2000. We're thinking it may not forward compatible. Outlook 2000 users seem to be having the problem viewing entries by Outlook 2003 users. Not the problem vice versa. (as well can tell right now) Still researching.
 
Timothy said:
Our calendar was created with Outlook 2000. We're thinking it may not
Click to expand...
forward compatible. Outlook 2000 users seem to be having the problem
viewing entries by Outlook 2003 users. Not the problem vice versa. (as well
can tell right now) Still researching.

Hmm my calendar is a 2003 created calendar and all users have problems
including the owner of the calendar..

On a side thought our server is Exchange 5.0 - Maybe its a problem with 2003
and Exchange 5.0 / 5.5??

regards

Victoria
 
I have just started having the exact same problems in our
office. We run Exchange 5.5, and the users are using a mix
of Office 2000 and 2002. I use to administrate the
corporate shared calander using 2002, but ever since
installing Office 2003 on my system only we seem to be
having the one hour time difference. It seems to be a war
between certain Office installations. When I update the
calander, only about half of the users update to my
settings. When the other admin (using Office 2002)
updates, the other half will see her changes and I and the
other half are one hour behind. (I think I just confused
myself).

Anyway - I think there is an issue with Exchange 5.x and
Office 2003, but I can't figure out why. Any answers would
be great, and I'll be sure to post my own if and when I
find any.
 
What we found was that on some computers, if you go into
the system tray and click on the time clock and then go to
timezone and click automatically adjust for daylight
savings time, you will see the hour changes (for future
appointments).
What we are trying to figure out is if you set that, what
do you do for the source appointments that were set when
auto adjust was not set.
Bruce
 
Make sure that both users have the same setting under
outlook\tools\options\calendar options. It may be that one user's
Outlook is adjusting and the other is not.
 
Make sure that both users have the same setting under
outlook\tools\options\calendar options. It may be that one user's
Outlook is adjusting and the other is not.
 
I've found that if the "automatically adjust clock for daylights savings changes" box isn't check it will post the times incorrectly in calendar by (obviously) an hour. Double-click on time in lower right hand corner of monitor. Click the "Time Zone" tab and check the appropriate box. Not sure if it corrects all the calendar problems. Still checking for answers. Take care.
 
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