TIME ZONE CHANGE AFFECTS APPOINTMENT CALENDAR TIMES

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oI found that my time zone was reset to some mexican border town. I changed
it back to eastern/canada and now all my Outllok Calendar appointment times
are screwed by the offset

My suggestion is that you fix it..*Chuckles* this shouldnt happen and I am
sure you agree.

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Export your calendar to Excel and fix the times. If your computer had its
time set to some town in Mexico, it is not Microsoft's fault.

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After furious head-scratching, TR asked this group:

| oI found that my time zone was reset to some mexican border town. I
| changed it back to eastern/canada and now all my Outllok Calendar
| appointment times are screwed by the offset
|
| My suggestion is that you fix it..*Chuckles* this shouldnt happen and
| I am sure you agree.
|
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| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
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|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...914d9&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring
 
There is nothing that needs fixing - this is how all email clients work -
they display the times in "local" time based on your time zone setting. This
allows your appointments to move with you. You can either export the times
before changing the time zone, then import, or use outlook's dual time zone
feature if the change is temporary.

BTW - this issue is documented at both slipstick.com and outlook-tips.net,
if you want to "read more about it".


oI found that my time zone was reset to some mexican border town. I changed
it back to eastern/canada and now all my Outllok Calendar appointment times
are screwed by the offset

My suggestion is that you fix it..*Chuckles* this shouldnt happen and I am
sure you agree.
Click to expand...

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





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SO.. what you are saying is that this is a problem between my seat and my
keyboard and the fact that when I discovered the timezone change after adding
many appointments to my calendar, and then corrected the time zone, causing
all my appointment times to go askew and totally messing up all my
notifications.. I would have been better off moving to Mexico and just living
with it or exporting my entire calendar (Thousands of entries) to excel and
spending a week correcting them?

Okie Dokies! I shall do just that!

Thanks for the help. TR Signing off from Mexico..*Chuckles*
 
Thanks Diane! Your post both informative and polite. and I shal certainly
take advantage of the additional material you provided. Thankyou for your
professionalism.

*En route back to the USA now*.. TR

Diane Poremsky said:
There is nothing that needs fixing - this is how all email clients work -
they display the times in "local" time based on your time zone setting. This
allows your appointments to move with you. You can either export the times
before changing the time zone, then import, or use outlook's dual time zone
feature if the change is temporary.

BTW - this issue is documented at both slipstick.com and outlook-tips.net,
if you want to "read more about it".


oI found that my time zone was reset to some mexican border town. I changed
it back to eastern/canada and now all my Outllok Calendar appointment times
are screwed by the offset

My suggestion is that you fix it..*Chuckles* this shouldnt happen and I am
sure you agree.
Click to expand...

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive.
Click to expand...
 
OK, but who goes and figures out that if I have a 10am meeting in Sao Paulo
next week, but I'm currently in London then I should put the meeting down for
1pm so taht when I get to Sao Paulo and change my clock (so i don't have to
do teh calculation every time I look at the clock on the screen) it matches
up? Surely it makes more sense not to change the bloody appointment time at
all??

TR said:
Thanks Diane! Your post both informative and polite. and I shal certainly
take advantage of the additional material you provided. Thankyou for your
professionalism.

*En route back to the USA now*.. TR

Diane Poremsky said:
There is nothing that needs fixing - this is how all email clients work -
they display the times in "local" time based on your time zone setting. This
allows your appointments to move with you. You can either export the times
before changing the time zone, then import, or use outlook's dual time zone
feature if the change is temporary.

BTW - this issue is documented at both slipstick.com and outlook-tips.net,
if you want to "read more about it".


oI found that my time zone was reset to some mexican border town. I changed
it back to eastern/canada and now all my Outllok Calendar appointment times
are screwed by the offset

My suggestion is that you fix it..*Chuckles* this shouldnt happen and I am
sure you agree.
Click to expand...

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
use dual time zones and make sure it's set for the correct time on the sao
paula zone.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/






AJS said:
OK, but who goes and figures out that if I have a 10am meeting in Sao
Paulo
next week, but I'm currently in London then I should put the meeting down
for
1pm so taht when I get to Sao Paulo and change my clock (so i don't have
to
do teh calculation every time I look at the clock on the screen) it
matches
up? Surely it makes more sense not to change the bloody appointment time
at
all??

TR said:
Thanks Diane! Your post both informative and polite. and I shal certainly
take advantage of the additional material you provided. Thankyou for your
professionalism.

*En route back to the USA now*.. TR

Diane Poremsky said:
There is nothing that needs fixing - this is how all email clients
work -
they display the times in "local" time based on your time zone setting.
This
allows your appointments to move with you. You can either export the
times
before changing the time zone, then import, or use outlook's dual time
zone
feature if the change is temporary.

BTW - this issue is documented at both slipstick.com and
outlook-tips.net,
if you want to "read more about it".


On 11/4/05 8:46 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "TR"

oI found that my time zone was reset to some mexican border town. I
changed
it back to eastern/canada and now all my Outllok Calendar appointment
times
are screwed by the offset

My suggestion is that you fix it..*Chuckles* this shouldnt happen and
I am
sure you agree.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive.
Click to expand...
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Diane

I know you're a volunteer, helping out because you like doing it, and not a
Microsoft employee.

But the solution you suggest is just not viable or reasonable.

My home office is in New York (GMT-5), but I am currently working with (and
frequently visiting) clients in Tennessee (GMT-6), Italy (GMT+1), Belgrade
(GMT+1), and Australia (GMT+10). And last week I was traveling in Australia,
Japan and Los Angeles, and at various times had to schedule calls with
people in New York, Los Angeles, Belgrade and London. Plus, I had to figure
out if I had free time on my calendar next week. So getting Outlook to
display 2 time zones - besides being a PITA to accomplish - was pointless.

For what it's worth, the Blackberry also uses the GMT scheme, and so is also
just about useless for scheduling cross-zone meetings. (It's amazing how
many people I ran into last week who complained about this). About the only
reasonable solution I've found is to use the excellent Palm software Datebk5
from Pimlico Software (on a palm OS device), which allows you to schedule
appointments on a virtual "home time zone" that doesn't change as you cross
time zone boundaries.

So the question for the MVPs: How can the users influence MS to implement a
different scheme in future versions of Outlook?

Thanks.



Diane Poremsky said:
use dual time zones and make sure it's set for the correct time on the sao
paula zone.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/






AJS said:
OK, but who goes and figures out that if I have a 10am meeting in Sao
Paulo
next week, but I'm currently in London then I should put the meeting down
for
1pm so taht when I get to Sao Paulo and change my clock (so i don't have
to
do teh calculation every time I look at the clock on the screen) it
matches
up? Surely it makes more sense not to change the bloody appointment time
at
all??

TR said:
Thanks Diane! Your post both informative and polite. and I shal
certainly
take advantage of the additional material you provided. Thankyou for
your
professionalism.

*En route back to the USA now*.. TR

:


There is nothing that needs fixing - this is how all email clients
work -
they display the times in "local" time based on your time zone
setting. This
allows your appointments to move with you. You can either export the
times
before changing the time zone, then import, or use outlook's dual time
zone
feature if the change is temporary.

BTW - this issue is documented at both slipstick.com and
outlook-tips.net,
if you want to "read more about it".


On 11/4/05 8:46 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "TR"

oI found that my time zone was reset to some mexican border town. I
changed
it back to eastern/canada and now all my Outllok Calendar
appointment times
are screwed by the offset

My suggestion is that you fix it..*Chuckles* this shouldnt happen
and I am
sure you agree.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/





Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive.
Click to expand...
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jg said:
Diane

I know you're a volunteer, helping out because you like doing it, and
not a Microsoft employee.

But the solution you suggest is just not viable or reasonable.

My home office is in New York (GMT-5), but I am currently working
with (and frequently visiting) clients in Tennessee (GMT-6), Italy
(GMT+1), Belgrade (GMT+1), and Australia (GMT+10). And last week I
was traveling in Australia, Japan and Los Angeles, and at various
times had to schedule calls with people in New York, Los Angeles,
Belgrade and London. Plus, I had to figure out if I had free time on
my calendar next week. So getting Outlook to display 2 time zones -
besides being a PITA to accomplish - was pointless.
Click to expand...

When I used to travel extensively for work, similarly to your pattern,
the dual time zones worked well. Right-clicking on the time column,
select change time zone, select from the drop down - sure it's four
clicks (which I didn't think was a PITA), but it was fast enough to do
on the fly, and to ensure that I got the meeting times right.

--
Hebelyon
"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to
use."

Using XanaNews 1.17.6.6
 
you could save a couple of clicks by creating reg files with the zone data.

I also use windows time zone utilities that show me times in other zones, so
I don't need to change the zone on my laptop.
 
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