Appointments don't appear in the correct date

[John Hudson]

A weird issue with my copy of Outlook 2003, which seems to be happening all
the time.

I used to use it for E-mail only but have just started using the calendar,
since getting a smartphone (a Nokia E61i).

Every time I enter a calendar event, it appears on the date that I added the
entry, not the date that it's set for. Strangely, when I click on the event,
it shows the correct details - it just doesn't appear in the right box in
the calendar.

For example, I've just added an event for 21st July and it appears in
today's box, 2nd, despite showing the right date when I double click it.

I've also just added "UK Public Holidays" and they are all showing up in
today's date. Surely this can't be the default behaviour? Is there some
hidden setting for this that I've missed

When I synchronise to the Nokia, it shows up on the correct date there...

Apologies if this has been answered before, but I've checked on line and
can't find an answer to it.

Thanks.

 

[John Hudson]

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Every time I enter a calendar event, it appears on the date that I added
the entry, not the date that it's set for. Strangely, when I click on the
event, it shows the correct details - it just doesn't appear in the right
box in the calendar.

For example, I've just added an event for 21st July and it appears in
today's box, 2nd, despite showing the right date when I double click it.

I've also just added "UK Public Holidays" and they are all showing up in
today's date. Surely this can't be the default behaviour? Is there some
hidden setting for this that I've missed?

I'm now convinced this is some obscure bug in Outlook. I've read of one
other instance where it happens, and I've tried entering exactly the same
data in a friend's copy of Outlook, where it DOESN'T happen. It's extremely
frustrating.

Has anyone seen this happen? Did you manage to fix it and, if so, how?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm now convinced this is some obscure bug in Outlook. I've read of
one other instance where it happens, and I've tried entering exactly
the same data in a friend's copy of Outlook, where it DOESN'T happen.
It's extremely frustrating.

He probably has the DST settings correct.

 

[TechieBird]

Hi John

View > Arrange By > Current View > Customize Current View...

Then click on Reset Current View.

 

[John Hudson]

Hello again

View > Arrange By > Current View > Customize Current View...

Then click on Reset Current View.

Thanks for the info. I eventually managed to find this on my own. I do find
Outlook's interface clumsy, though. I've no idea how the fields START and
END both got set to point to CREATED, but it seems to me that Outlook has
lots of little traps like this.

I'd love to know why Microsoft allows such an obscure customisation of the
view as this but doesn't (as far as I can tell) allow basic control of the
date format in the header. I'd like today's date in the day and week view to
be headed "Tue 3 July" but it seems I'm stuck with "03 Jul" because that's
the way Microsoft fixes it - unless someone knows better?

 

[TechieBird]

Hi John

If you post this as a Suggestion through Microsoft's Office Discussion
Groups page(which is just a portal to the newsgroups) at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...soft.public.outlook.calendaring&lang=en&cr=US,
then we all get a chance to vote for your idea...