I discovered my PC has been set to central time since I started using
it, which is screwing up my timestamps on emails and such.

When I change it to eastern time, all my appointments in outlook move
by an hour -- I guess they are stored in GMT or something and just
adjust to the timezone setting.

How can I fix my timezone WITHOUT shifting all my appointments
(without going through and chaning the time on each appointment
individually).

Thanks!

keithc-ga - I can give you the answer, however, I know it is not what
you want to hear.  According to Outlooks help files, Outlook can't
force an appointment to remain fixed when the time zone changes. If
you need the appointment to stay at a fixed time, you should not
change your current time zone.

To change the time zone setting in Outlook without changing the times
for each of your appointments, you can try to  export the data from
your Calendar folder, change the time zone setting, and then import
the data into Outlook.

You can export to Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft PowerPoint, or to a Personal Folders file.

On the File menu, click Import and Export. 

Click Export to a file, and then click Next. 

In the list, click the file type you want to export to, and then click Next. 

If you want to export to a file for use in Word or PowerPoint, choose
either Tab Separated Values or Comma Separated Values.

Follow the instructions in the Import and Export Wizard. 

To Import the calendar back into Outlook, use the Import and Export
Wizard to move the contents of the file into a folder that you specify
in Outlook


I hope this helps you.  If anything needs further clarification, please let me kow!

Nenna-GA
Google Researcher

Outlook Search Terms: "Troubleshoot time zones", "Exporting Calendar"
& "Importing Calendar"

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Request for Answer Clarification by keithc-ga on 01 Jul 2005 09:21 PDT

Thanks for the speedy reply.  

Before I start the process, one clarification -- how do I avoid having
all the appointments in there twice, one for the old time and one for
the new?  Do I have to delete all after my export?  Is there a way to
do that?

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Clarification of Answer by nenna-ga on 01 Jul 2005 10:00 PDT

keithc-ga:

If you import calendar items into Outlook that are duplicates of items
that already exist in your Calendar folder, and you select the Allow
duplicates to be created option in the Import and Export Wizard, you
can delete the duplicate calendar items after the import process is
completed. Removing the duplicate calendar items is a manual process,
but the following is the easiest way to do it:

In Calendar, select the calendar folder where there are duplicate calendar items. 

On the View menu, point to Arrange By, point to Current View, and then
click By Category.

Click the Subject column heading to arrange all calendar items by subject. 

Hold down CTRL while you click each duplicate calendar item in the list. 

When you have selected all the duplicate calendar items, press DELETE. 

Note  If you do not want duplicate calendar items when you import
calendar items into Outlook, select the Do not import duplicates
option or the Replace duplicates with items imported option in the
Import and Export Wizard.

Hope this helps!

Nenna-GA

Nice, quick work.

Well here is the easy way to fix this. If you dont really wan to do
all that import and export and risk messing everything up, and you
dont mind changing your time manually for daylight savings here is
what you do.

If you need to change from CST to EST then choose (-5:00GMT)Indiana
East. This will keep all your saved files tagged with original time to
keep that stamp. From then on any appointments you put in will be
stamped with your new time.

When it comes around daylight savings time, all you need to do is
remember to change it up and down an hour. This way saves a lot of
time, you lose the automatic adjustment, but when you change your
watch, its time to change your computer.

Hope this was better info. I did it myself and it works great.

mike@boxerdogit.com