1 day appointment spans 2 days

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Some predefined "appointments" such as Mother's Day, etc. show up as 2 days
long. Also, other all day appointments that I make on my home PC (Outlook
2003), such as a birthday, will show up as 2 days long on my office PC when I
"Invite Attendees" to my office PC (also Outlook 2003) from my home PC. This
seemed to start when I upgraded from Office XP to Office 2003
 
Did you change time zones in either the OS or Outlook? That would cause the
event to shift
 
No I didn't. I just checked both. Central Time with Daylight Savings is
selected for both the OS and Outlook.

This is my 1st post. I am astonished at how fast I got a reply!
 
Hmmm, was it set differently when you created the appointments/events
 
It may have been. In my earlier post, when I said that I checked both. I was
referring to the OS and Outlook's time setting. But, I had only checked my
home PC. When I checked my office PC, I found that the OS time did not have
the "Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes" box checked. I
fixed that.

I have been doing some testing, and have found that it seems to properly
schedule 1-day appointments to 1-day from an invitation. Also, I had to go in
and delete all the messed up (2-day when they should be 1-day) holidays, like
Father's day. Then I went into Outlook...Tools...Options...Calendar
Options...Add Holidays, and re-added the United States holidays. This
established them correctly. I haven't done it on both machines yet, but the
results have been good so far on my home PC.

Thanks!
 
I have the same problem - all of my "all day" appointments and events span 2
days. If I open each individual appointment they automatically change back
to 1 day length. How can I change them all automatically?
 
Jacqui said:
I have the same problem - all of my "all day" appointments and events
span 2 days.
Click to expand...

This is most often a mismatch in the time zone or daylight saving time
settings in either Windows or Outlook's calendar.
 
Same problem here. My computer did a Windows Update and now a bunch of my
appointments/birthdays, etc are from 1:00 am to 1:00 am (spanning two days).
Or the time has move back an hour (from 3:30 to 4:30 for example). I didn't
change the time zone or daylight savings time box. These errors occur the
week of daylight savings time last year (Oct 06) and then not again until
March 11, 07 to the end of the month. Then again toward the end of the year
(don't remember when exactly 'cause I manually fixed the bdays...).

I know it has something to do with the change in daylight saings time
(starts earlier and ends later now). Is there an easy fix??

--Tomara
 
Tomara said:
Same problem here. My computer did a Windows Update and now a bunch
of my appointments/birthdays, etc are from 1:00 am to 1:00 am
(spanning two days). Or the time has move back an hour (from 3:30 to
4:30 for example). I didn't change the time zone or daylight savings
time box. These errors occur the week of daylight savings time last
year (Oct 06) and then not again until March 11, 07 to the end of the
month. Then again toward the end of the year (don't remember when
exactly 'cause I manually fixed the bdays...).

I know it has something to do with the change in daylight saings time
(starts earlier and ends later now). Is there an easy fix??
Click to expand...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...33-B9C8-4652-9DD8-AE0F1AF62568&displaylang=en
 
This has nothing to do with the DST update, changing time zones or the "show
time as clocks" setting. I started seeing it on my systems last year and
affecting appointments I had next summer so it's before the update and
affecting appointments outside of the change dates. I've never changed time
zones. I've never checked the show time as clocks option. In most cases
these are appointments I had set years before and had not touched for ages.
When I check them the times are correct and the same as an appointment that
does show up correctly.
 
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