Allow Outlook Appointments set in diff time zones

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I am currently traveling in Australia for work. My home office is in MN, and
I live in AZ, and am also working with an office in London. Each of these
areas are requiring appointments to be set up on my Outlook calendar. When I
am trying to set a meeting, It is very difficult to remember what time of day
it will be when not currently in the US. Australia is 17 hours different
than MN, 12 different from UK and if trying to set a meeting up, I get a
headache from all of the calculations that need to be done. Also what may be
worse, is trying to set up a meeting in the future when you will be back in
your own time zone and trying to remember what the conversion time would be.
I would suggest that a field be added, to choose the time zone that you wish
to set the appointment in.

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Kevin Tucholke, General Mills Inc <Kevin Tucholke, General Mills
I am currently traveling in Australia for work. My home office is in
MN, and I live in AZ, and am also working with an office in London.
Each of these areas are requiring appointments to be set up on my
Outlook calendar. When I am trying to set a meeting, It is very
difficult to remember what time of day it will be when not currently
in the US. Australia is 17 hours different than MN, 12 different
from UK and if trying to set a meeting up, I get a headache from all
of the calculations that need to be done. Also what may be worse, is
trying to set up a meeting in the future when you will be back in
your own time zone and trying to remember what the conversion time
would be. I would suggest that a field be added, to choose the time
zone that you wish to set the appointment in.
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It seems to me that Outlook handles time zones, provided you change your
calendar's settings to be the time zone you're currently in.
 
Kevin said:
I am currently traveling in Australia for work. My home office is in
MN, and I live in AZ, and am also working with an office in London.
Each of these areas are requiring appointments to be set up on my
Outlook calendar. When I am trying to set a meeting, It is very
difficult to remember what time of day it will be when not currently
in the US. Australia is 17 hours different than MN, 12 different
from UK and if trying to set a meeting up, I get a headache from all
of the calculations that need to be done. Also what may be worse, is
trying to set up a meeting in the future when you will be back in
your own time zone and trying to remember what the conversion time
would be. I would suggest that a field be added, to choose the time
zone that you wish to set the appointment in.
Click to expand...

Apologies for waking up an old thread, but when I used to travel
extensively, and had to manage meetings in different timezones, I would
show two time zones in the calendar - in the daily view, right click on
the time column, select Change Time Zone, check Show Additional Time
Zone, and select where you are going to be. Thus you avoid having to
do any conversions manually.
 
I suppose that you have already settled your problems with this, although MS
shows this post as occuring 1/11/2006 which isn't here yet (6/27/2006) so
maybe you are (will be?) still suffering.

I feel your pain, the whole time zone thing is a REAL hassle. The first
thing to remember is to never actually change the time / date on your
computer (except for daylight savings which should be automatic) this will
help keep things constant - always set the time zone to adjust the time while
traveling.

The second thing is that when you are scheduling a meeting, set your time
zone to where you will be when you will be attending the meeting. I know that
this is not fool proof because you may not know where you will be when the
meeting happens. At least it will display properly although it might be
outside your normal working hours. As long as you always use the time zones
this will work.

Don't be afraid to put a yellow sticky on the monitor when you have the time
zone set to something other than local. I have more than once answered a call
and forgotten what time zone my computer was in while talking.

There is one thing that I don't know and that's what happens to a meeting
shedule over the time change for daylight savings. When you are scheduling
meetings on the 'other side' of the time change. That would be interesting to
look into.

Keith
 
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