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Shared Calendar Timezone issue.
I've seen this posted several times but could not figure out a specific
answer. We have users in 2 different timezones. When an all day event is created in say the east coast. It spans 2 days on the west coast. This happens because an all day event on the east coast spans 12-12. Which in turn on the west coast spans 9-9 which makes it span 2 days. This part we understand. What we don't understand is why an all day event would change times at all, no matter what timezone your in. Shouldn't it just stay to all day on that date. Does MS have a fix for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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There is no fix, because it's not broken. It changes because outlook pins to
UTC time, offset by the time zone, not a specific time. I'm not holding my breath for an option to lock appointments to times in the outlook 12.... but if there is any change, it will be in new versions of outlook, not old ones. You might have them try using dual zones... I don't think it will work for their problem - but it works well for travelers. from http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2005/up050623.htm#tz Many people mistakenly believe Outlook uses "absolute time" for appointments (and tasks or reminders), which means an appointment you enter for 2 PM will always stay on 2 PM, no matter how many times you change the time zone. This isn't how it works though. Outlook stores times as UTC time and reads the computer's time zone offset to display the appointment in the calendar. While this makes it easy to send meeting requests to people worldwide and makes using shared calendars much less confusing, it moves the appointment to a new time if you change the time zone on your computer. Keep in mind that this is the correct way to handle times and all email clients use the same method to display the sent and received times on email, so it's not "an Outlook bug". -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide) Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: "Chad J." wrote in message ... I've seen this posted several times but could not figure out a specific answer. We have users in 2 different timezones. When an all day event is created in say the east coast. It spans 2 days on the west coast. This happens because an all day event on the east coast spans 12-12. Which in turn on the west coast spans 9-9 which makes it span 2 days. This part we understand. What we don't understand is why an all day event would change times at all, no matter what timezone your in. Shouldn't it just stay to all day on that date. Does MS have a fix for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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