Outlook and Daylight Savings

[Snapper]

Just manually altered my computer's clock for daylight savings. Here in
Australia we changed over 3 weeks earlier than normal. It appears that neither
Windows XP nor Outlook 2003 like it for various reasons.

With Outlook and the calendar, all day events now span two days and timed events
that start at say, 7am or 7pm now occur at 8am/pm (my shift roster, actually).

Is there a fix for this?

I changed my timezone to GMT +11 from +10 to alter the time. Not sure how the
time/date stamp will look in this message til it's posted, though.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Just manually altered my computer's clock for daylight savings. Here in
Australia we changed over 3 weeks earlier than normal. It appears that
neither
Windows XP nor Outlook 2003 like it for various reasons.

Why didn't you install the recent DST patch Microsoft issued for the
Australian time zones and why not use the TZ mover tool Microsoft supplies?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

unless you either just change the time (and keep the current time zone) or
install the patch that updates the time zone, the appointments will be off
an hour. Changing the time may cause other issues so you really need to
install the patch.

Get the patch from windows update.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[Snapper]

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote...

Why didn't you install the recent DST patch Microsoft issued for the
Australian time zones and why not use the TZ mover tool Microsoft supplies?

I wasn't aware of either of the above.

I shall go looking for them unless someone else here has kindly posted URLs to
them.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote...

I wasn't aware of either of the above.

I shall go looking for them unless someone else here has kindly posted
URLs to

Here is the Microsoft page for Australia:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/bb887637.aspx
Here's the TZ Mover tool:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...33-B9C8-4652-9DD8-AE0F1AF62568&displaylang=en>

 

[Snapper]

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote...

Here is the Microsoft page for Australia:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/bb887637.aspx
Here's the TZ Mover tool:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...33-B9C8-4652-9DD8-AE0F1AF62568&displaylang=en>

Thanks. I downloaded and ran the update. I then checked my calendar data. All
the calendar events that are "all day" ones still span two days. I dunno whether
I'm s'posed to edit them and to correct this or whether the TZ updater is
supposed to do it for me. Whatever, I'll change them back manually.

 

[Snapper]

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote...

Here's the TZ Mover tool:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...33-B9C8-4652-9DD8-AE0F1AF62568&displaylang=en>

It appears that something's working. I have the region set for GMT+10
(Melbourne, Sydney, etc.). Messages that I'm posting here have the +1100 time
stamp on them. However, all calendar data is still either an hour out or that
all day events are spanning two days.

Looks like I'll have to change them back manually and see what happens at the
other end of DST.

Also my PDA is doing weird stuff as well. When it syncs the date stays at the
pre-DST time. I have to manually change it and move it forward an hour
afterwards. Luckily though the calendar data in it doesn't appear to have been
affected.

I've posted a question in the pocketpc newsgroup. Hopefully someone will have an
answer.

As a political rant, it really, really annoys the crap out of me when our
various state governments decide to "give" us an extra 3 weeks of DST. The
public servants who dream up this rubbish obviously have no idea as to how it
affects people in IT and hi-tech industries.

I wish that they'd simply leave it alone. It's bad enough that we have to have
DST, let alone have it change outside of the normal last weekend in
October/first week in March...

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Also my PDA is doing weird stuff as well. When it syncs the date stays at
the
pre-DST time. I have to manually change it and move it forward an hour
afterwards. Luckily though the calendar data in it doesn't appear to have
been
affected.

There's a Windows Mobile DST patch as well, but that came out back in 2007.
This is a helpful site: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_prodlist .
Windows Mobile is on that page.

 

[Snapper]

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote...

There's a Windows Mobile DST patch as well, but that came out back in 2007.
This is a helpful site: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_prodlist .
Windows Mobile is on that page.

Just downloaded and installed it. After installation the PDA restarted. Then
after it restarted it tried to execute the exe file. Then it popped up a message
saying that it couldn't run because of a few reasons, a couple refering to
unsigned certificates (even though I said "yes" to trusting int) and missing or
invalid components.

Just peachy.

Should've stuck with a PalmOS device.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Just downloaded and installed it. After installation the PDA restarted.
Then
after it restarted it tried to execute the exe file. Then it popped up a
message
saying that it couldn't run because of a few reasons, a couple refering to
unsigned certificates (even though I said "yes" to trusting int) and
missing or
invalid components.

Sorry. When I did this stuff, I didn't have any problems. I'm out of
ideas. Fortunately, it's easy to recover a PDA from a hard reset.

 

[Snapper]

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote...

Sorry. When I did this stuff, I didn't have any problems. I'm out of
ideas. Fortunately, it's easy to recover a PDA from a hard reset.

I found another link on the MS website. I downloaded a ".cab" file which I'll
transfer to the PDA and will run it. See what happens from there.

If it doesn't work I'll simply put up with it til the "start" of DST in late
October.

Thanks for your help, in any case. It's appreciated.