I have a problem with my microsoft outlook calendar not registering
recurring appointments correctly on my calendar. If I have a yearly
appointment in my calendar, with a time period set to all day, the
appointment appears to cover two days on the calendar. The problem
occurs when I set my windows time to automatically adjust for daylight
savings.
My initial inclination was to deselect the automatic adjust option and
set my time one hour in advance. However, this throws off the outlook
meeting request capabilities, and all my appointments are one hour
off.
Any ideas here on how to fix this problem or find a workaround? |
Request for Question Clarification by
denco-ga
on
08 May 2005 18:34 PDT
Howdy tedr-ga,
Appreciate your patience with the diagnostic process. Could you please
check the current time zone setting for both your computer (double click
the clock icon in the lower right corner of your computer and then select
the "Time Zone" tab) as well as the current time zone setting for your
Outlook Calendar program (inside of Calendar, go to "Tools," click on
"Options," click "Calendar Options," click "Time Zone") and make sure
they are set to the same time zone? You might want to make sure that
both the computer and Calendar have "Adjust for daylight saving time"
selected. If changes are made, could you see if that clears up your
problem? Thanks!
Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher
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Clarification of Question by
tedr-ga
on
08 May 2005 19:14 PDT
Well, in following your instructions, you brought up an interesting
fact that I did not consider - that MS Outlook keeps a separate
setting for daylight savings. To me, the real solution here is to
make sure that both the computer and the calendar are set to the same
option. As it turned out, my windows time automatically adjust
setting was deselected, but the outlook calendar setting was selected.
Accordingly, when I got meeting requests from the CST zone, they were
always 1 hour off. Does this make sense?
If I went with your suggestion to have both set to automatically
adjust, I would still see the calendaring problem.
My assumption is that if I have them both deselected, that Outlook
will be able to reconcile the time differences when meeting requests
are being sent from computers with the Automatically adjust setting
turned on. Do you think this is a valid assumption?
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Request for Question Clarification by
denco-ga
on
08 May 2005 20:25 PDT
Howdy tedr-ga,
You might want to review the suggestions on this Microsoft web page.
"Troubleshoot time zones"
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010223091033.aspx
Here is one of the entries on that page, but there are other suggestions
there that might be applicable or helpful.
"When you have all-day events on your Calendar and then change the time
zone, the all-day events span two days instead of one.
Outlook treats anniversaries, holidays, and birthdays as all-day events
(an all-day event is defined from midnight to midnight in the local time
zone). When the time zones change, all-day events move. Therefore, when
you change the computer's time zone, the all-day event moves to display
in the new time zone. An event, such as a holiday or birthday, will
appear in the Calendar on two consecutive days. For example, a birthday
could appear from 6 A.M. one day to 6 A.M. the next day.
You can do one of the following:
- Use the additional time zone feature in Outlook to display the local
time zone and do not change the operating system time zone.
- Correct each all-day event for the current time zone setting.
- Change the time zone back to the one used when the items were created."
I am thinking that you might want to go ahead and set the DST option to
on for both your computer as well as Outlook Calendar, and then go through
the recurring all-day events and correct all of those events for the current
(and now consistent) time zone settings, which would (now) include the DST
setting as well. I would not think you would want to lose the DST settings.
Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher
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