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Old January 26th, 2005, 09:15 PM
Bob
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I find this newsgroup terribly confusing as to the mechanics; I guess
I'm used to email listservs more than newsgroups.
Below, I've copied into this reply, several items: my original
question, Sue Mosher's "different time zone" response which I couldn't
figure out, and the response I submitted with the additional
information that appears below, under my phrase, "Sue, I'm confused by
your response." Hope my copy and paste approach doesn't do too much
duplication, but I really need to figure out the answer to this
problem.

Thanks, in advance, for your help!

Bob

Some people are using their department calendar to post if someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on one single day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else's computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared calendar, the
appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment lasting from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the day before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This in spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring appointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?


Bob


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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] Dec 22 2004, 9:28 am show options

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The two machines are set for different time zones or have different
Daylight
Savings Time settings.


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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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Some people are using their department calendar to post if someone is
sick or out on vacation. When they post such an entry on one single

day
(say January 5, 2005) in Outlook, then go to someone else's computer
and look at that same appointment on that same shared calendar, the
appointment has changed: it now is a recurring appointment lasting

from
today (the day the appointment was entered) through the day before
(1/4/05) the day for which they posted it (1/5/05). This in spite of
the fact that it was clearly not entered as a recurring appointment.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?


Bob




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Bob Jan 7, 2:12 pm show options

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Date: 7 Jan 2005 14:12:08 -0800
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Sue, I'm confused by your response: "


The two machines are set for
different time zones or have different Daylight Savings Time settings


.."

I have checked and all the machines are set for the same time zone. I'm
not quite sure whether they all have different DST time settings, but I
will check; I forgot to last time I was down there.


But I'm wondering why a divergence in one of these settings would make
an appointment go from being a one-day appointment on one computer, to
being a multi-day appointment on another computer, when the appointment
is being viewed from the same calendar on both computers?


We have also discovered a related(?) problem in the same department,
today. A number of department employees have permissions to place
appointments on each other's computers. In one instance, the originator
employee entered an appointment for 8am to 1pm. Another employee viewed
that same appointment on that same calendar (from anothe computer) and
the bar on the calendar shows as a one-hour appointment at 1pm. But
when you double-click on that appointment bar, the dialog box shows it
clearly as being from 8am to 1pm. All these employees can schedule each
other's time, so they carefully block out lunch, breaks, time off, etc.
so that the system works. This same originator employee entered a 4pm
break time on her computer. The same second employee doesn't see that
4pm break time on the originator's calendar, at all. The second
employee does not have Windows XP, but pretty much everyone else does.
Could this be part of the problem. It still seems pretty bizarre, even
if that is the cause of the problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!