Entourage (Office X) Calendar and DST

[rbatey]

I am running Entourage (Office X, updated to 10.1.9) and OSX 10.4.8.
There is an annoying issue with the calendar which seems to be ralted
to daylight savings time. I have regularly scheduled meeting set up on
Entourage, but the times change by +1 hour for the last 3 weeks of
march for any event. This occurs even if I create a new calendar event
within this time period. Is there a fix for this this problem? Thanks
in advance for any help you may have.

Rob

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

The fix, I'm afraid, is to upgrade to Office 2004 and update to v11.3.4.

The changes in OS X (both 10.4.8 and 10.3.9) that incorporate the time zone
changes made it impossible for Microsoft to do a simple update. They had to
completely change how Entourage accesses the time zones, and took months to
effect for 2004. (Entourage 2004 now has a way of using the system's
calculations.) It could not be done for Entourage X, which in any case has
ended its period of support.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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[Allen Watson]

I am running Entourage (Office X, updated to 10.1.9) and OSX 10.4.8.
There is an annoying issue with the calendar which seems to be ralted
to daylight savings time. I have regularly scheduled meeting set up on
Entourage, but the times change by +1 hour for the last 3 weeks of
march for any event. This occurs even if I create a new calendar event
within this time period. Is there a fix for this this problem? Thanks
in advance for any help you may have.

Rob

The only alternative to updating as Paul suggests is semi-annual manually
updating. See the instructions under "Options for users with older releases"
in Diane Ross' article on the Entourage Help pages:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/articles/daylight.html>

I advise updating!

 

[Mark Gibson]

The only alternative to updating as Paul suggests is semi-annual manually
updating. See the instructions under "Options for users with older releases"
in Diane Ross' article on the Entourage Help pages:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/articles/daylight.html>

I advise updating!

Have you tried the DST updates now available via the OS X Software
Update tool?

Regards,

Mark

 

[Diane Ross]

Have you tried the DST updates now available via the OS X Software
Update tool?

Sorry, but just updating the system software will not make Entourage X work.
Both the OS and the application have to be upgraded.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>