absolute meeting time across multiple timezones

[Hopkinsr]

I am based in London and work for a Company with HQ in California with a
sales team spread from Paris to Moscow.

Is there ever going to be an option that allows Outlook to set the fixed
timezone time for a meeting?

If I schedule a meeting in my diary (UK Time) for 9am and invite Paris,
Moscow and USA attendees to join me for a meeting in the UK at 9am, their
diaries will each receive a meeting request in UTC + or - their local PC
Timezone offset. They will all get meetings posted in their diary varying
from 1am (California Person) in the morning to midday 12pm (Moscow Guy).

If it were an onlin meeting this would be fine, but if they travel to the
UK, and in all likely hood have the diaries on their outlook mobile device
which they will move across to local time zone, then they are sunk.

The problem only gets worse if I invite them all to a meeting a conference
we might all be attending in China for example, because now as the organiser,
I need to choose the timezone and put it in my diary at UK+china time
difference - even more complex!

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am based in London and work for a Company with HQ in California
with a sales team spread from Paris to Moscow.

Is there ever going to be an option that allows Outlook to set the
fixed timezone time for a meeting?

Outlook 2007 reportedly has this feature.

If I schedule a meeting in my diary (UK Time) for 9am and invite
Paris, Moscow and USA attendees to join me for a meeting in the UK at
9am, their diaries will each receive a meeting request in UTC + or -
their local PC Timezone offset. They will all get meetings posted in
their diary varying from 1am (California Person) in the morning to
midday 12pm (Moscow Guy).

Outlook assumes the PCs receiving the messages will stay in their timezones,
so adjusting the time to the local time of the PC is appropriate.

If it were an onlin meeting this would be fine, but if they travel to
the UK, and in all likely hood have the diaries on their outlook
mobile device which they will move across to local time zone, then
they are sunk.

No they're not. If they use the alternate timezone feature of their mobile
device, the appointment should appear at the correct time in the alternate
timezone.