Calendar starts up with wrong date

[anoop]

I am using MS Office 2003 on Win XP.

When I start up Outlook and go to the calendar, which is
set by default to a whole month view, the calendar highlights
September 25 even though today is October 30. If I use
the week view or the day view, it goes to the correct date.
The problem only happens with a month view. The problem
started happening only today.

The computer's time is set correctly.

Any pointers on how to fix this would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Anoop

 

[Jake]

Same thing happening to me and several other staff here at work. System date
is correct (first thing I checked) on all computers; time zone is correct.

I checked a computer loaded with Windows XP (SP2) and Office XP. The
Outlook XP monthly calendar defaults to the correct date of October 31, 2006.

 

[Jake]

Oh, good grief. (I'm laughing at myself) OK, here we go:

Starting with the first day of the month, (Saturday) Outlook needs 6 ROWS to
show the entire month of October. Outlook is showing the first part of the
month (which includes the end of September) rather than the last part of the
month.

Once we get to November, this "problem" disappears...

 

[Brian Tillman]

Oh, good grief. (I'm laughing at myself) OK, here we go:

Starting with the first day of the month, (Saturday) Outlook needs 6
ROWS to show the entire month of October.

Only five on my PC.

 

[anoop]

Oh, good grief. (I'm laughing at myself) OK, here we go:

Starting with the first day of the month, (Saturday) Outlook needs 6 ROWS to
show the entire month of October. Outlook is showing the first part of the
month (which includes the end of September) rather than the last part of the
month.

Interesting observation. I think it's a bug! It should scroll the
window up and at least highlight the correct date.

Once we get to November, this "problem" disappears...

Yes, that's what I noticed as well (after you mentioned it) by manually
setting my computer to Nov 1.

Anoop

 

[Jake]

Yes, Outlook's monthly calendar view shows us five rows.

But October 2006 needs six rows to show the entire month.

So, Outlook's month view presents us with the first day of October, which is
a (oops) SUNDAY. The row that contains the first day of October also
includes the last week of September.

Since Outlook has only five rows and presents to us the first day of the
month, we have to scroll down one row to see the last two days of October.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/wrongdate.htm

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

That's cos you don't use compressed weekends. This problem only occurs for
people who use compressed weekends.

 

[Jake]

The Outlook monthly calendar presented me with the entire month of October
ONLY when I uncompressed my weekends AND had the week start on Sunday rather
than Monday.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

AND had the week start on Sunday rather

than Monday.

That's the default calendar setting and typical layout for printed
calendars - so the majority of users with this problem will only need to
change their compressed weekend setting to fix it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Yes, Outlook's monthly calendar view shows us five rows.

But October 2006 needs six rows to show the entire month.

You'd need a month with at least 30 days starting on a Saturday to require
six rows.

So, Outlook's month view presents us with the first day of October,
which is a (oops) SUNDAY. The row that contains the first day of
October also includes the last week of September.

Not on my machine. October starts on a Sunday, so the calendar view starts
with the first week of October. The fifth row contains the few days of
October and the first few of November.

 

[Brian Tillman]

That's cos you don't use compressed weekends. This problem only
occurs for people who use compressed weekends.

Ah. I forgot about that "feature":