Help, please, Re: DST/ Outlook patch

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Uncle Vinnie

Using Outlook 2000 and Win XP...
I downloaded and installed a patch from Microsoft's website, to address the
change in Daylight Savings Time... (Northeast US).

The time on my PC is correct, however the patch has moved every appointment
I had set up in Outlook, by one hour.. As you can imagine, now I am double
checking every entry to get the correct time...

Why would it do this??????????

The time of day changed, not the time of the app't!

Help? Is there a fix for this fix?
Thank you!
 
Here's why that happens. Outlook remembers appointment times essentially as
Greenwich Mean Time, so when you entered an appointment for lunch at noon on
March 20th Outlook had to convert that to GMT. It applied the rules of your
timezone, which said that on March 20th you'd be five hours behind GMT, and
entered the appointment time as 5 PM. Then you applied the timezone patch
for the new dates, and the rules changed. Now, when you look at that
appointment, Outlook, knowing that you are four hours behind GMT under the
new rules, subtracts four hours from the 5 PM GMT to display the appointment
at 1 PM, one hour later than it should be.

-Peter
 
Thank you Peter.. that makes sense.. Sounds like I should not have applied
the patch...

Odd, why didn;t I see Kathleen's post??? I see it down at the bottom of
yours... It is definitely not on the thread off my server...

I will check that other patch as well...
 
Kathleen.. that is exactly the patch I ran... Win time was correct, after
running TZmove, all app'ts changed.. by one hour...
 
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