Bizarre calandar bug: all day appointments changed for no reason

[Joe G.]

Last month, I made a year long "on call" schedule using Outlook. Each day
there are a series of "appointments" that I set up, such as "Doctor A on
call". "Doctor B Off". "Doctor C On Vacation". Worked great, as I liked
the ability to drag and drop appointments as I created the schedule, much
easier than by hand.

Today, I went to make a couple of revisions, and I noted that all of the
appointments in the month of March had been changed. Each individually was
now spanning 2 days. For example, March 10 appointment for "Doctor C On
Call" was now spanning March 10-11. When looking at the appointment in
detail, the date of the appointment had changed to include both days; the
time said 1 am to 1 am; and all day event remained checked. Very bizarre,
and very much a pain as I had to manually go into each appointment and change
them back to include only the one day, with appropriate midnignt to midnight
time.

Very scary, all that hard work and somehow the computer changed dozens of
appointments.

Between the time I set up the schedule and now, I did convert from the Trial
version to the full version by activating with a product key (purchased from
a store), but I have no idea if this is when the bug occurred.

Any ideas? Is the software this unstable?

Joe

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

This issue was caused by an update to Outlook that allowed for the changes in
the dates of Daylight Saving Time in 2007. For more information, see the
following article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931667

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[Joe G.]

Wow. Perhaps I'll get a chance to read through this, but looks intimidating.
Thanks for pointing me in this direction.

Bottom line, now that I went in and fixed the events that were affected,
should this problem no longer recur? Or do I need to do anything proactively
now?

Thanks again.

Joe

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Since this is the first year for the DST changes and no other changes are anticipated for now, it should persist for upcoming years. However, you know our politicians... never say never.

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After furious head scratching, Joe G. asked:

| Wow. Perhaps I'll get a chance to read through this, but looks
| intimidating. Thanks for pointing me in this direction.
|
| Bottom line, now that I went in and fixed the events that were
| affected, should this problem no longer recur? Or do I need to do
| anything proactively now?
|
| Thanks again.
|
| Joe
|
| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| This issue was caused by an update to Outlook that allowed for the
|| changes in the dates of Daylight Saving Time in 2007. For more
|| information, see the following article:
|| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931667
||
|| --
|| Jocelyn Fiorello
|| MVP - Outlook
||
|| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
|| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread.
|| ***
||
||
|| "Joe G." wrote:
||
||| Last month, I made a year long "on call" schedule using Outlook.
||| Each day there are a series of "appointments" that I set up, such
||| as "Doctor A on call". "Doctor B Off". "Doctor C On Vacation".
||| Worked great, as I liked the ability to drag and drop appointments
||| as I created the schedule, much easier than by hand.
|||
||| Today, I went to make a couple of revisions, and I noted that all
||| of the appointments in the month of March had been changed. Each
||| individually was now spanning 2 days. For example, March 10
||| appointment for "Doctor C On Call" was now spanning March 10-11.
||| When looking at the appointment in detail, the date of the
||| appointment had changed to include both days; the time said 1 am
||| to 1 am; and all day event remained checked. Very bizarre, and
||| very much a pain as I had to manually go into each appointment and
||| change them back to include only the one day, with appropriate
||| midnignt to midnight time.
|||
||| Very scary, all that hard work and somehow the computer changed
||| dozens of appointments.
|||
||| Between the time I set up the schedule and now, I did convert from
||| the Trial version to the full version by activating with a product
||| key (purchased from a store), but I have no idea if this is when
||| the bug occurred.
|||
||| Any ideas? Is the software this unstable?
|||
||| Joe

 

[pat]

you span an appt for awhole day. dst starts in march on th 11th instead of the 2nd.

your all day appt is bumped 1 hour..which in essence moves it from 12 am to 12 am to the new time of 1 am to 1 am

but you told it to be the whole day....so it is doing what you told it to do....the whole day both days.

your system needs to be patched for the new dst time fram

i wont be checking back here anymore...so you are on your own for patches.

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