Time zone problem between iCal and Entourage 2008

[david toub]

I can't seem to solve this one on my own. I work on the West Coast but
live on the East Coast. If I'm on the East Coast (3 hours difference)
and send a meeting invite in iCal to my colleagues on the West Coast,
everyone who uses Outlook on a PC gets the meeting added to their
calendars in the correct time zone. In other words, a meeting that
goes on my calendar on the East Coast as happening at 3 PM EST gets
added correctly to Outlook users as noon, PST. And vice-versa; invites
from the West Coast from Outlook users go onto my iCal calendar
converted to EST.

However, if I receive invites from folks on the West Coast using
Entourage, there is no time zone conversion, and it goes into my iCal
calendar 3 hours behind. That is, an invite for a meeting at noon PST
gets into iCal as noon EST. And vice-versa, although I now have fixed
this by turning on Time Zone Support in iCal, so that my invites to
West Coast Entourage users goes into their calendars in PST. But I
still have the problem where if I get invites in PST, it seems to lack
a time zone, so that it gets entered into iCal unconverted.

Any suggestions? I've looked at the Entourage users' preferences in
Entourage and I don't see anything incorrect. Their time zone is set
as PST. Thanks.

 

[Diane Ross]

Any suggestions?

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/calendar.html#cal9>

Mactopia links:

<http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mac/help.mspx?app=2&qu2=time+zone>

 

[david toub]

The time zone in my colleagues' Entourage prefs is correct (Pacific
Time), yet invitations from them do not seem to contain the time zone
when interpreted by iCal, since a 3 PM PST meeting is entered as 3 PM
regardless whether or not I'm in PST or EST or whatever.

 

[Diane Ross]

I'm sorry, but I don't have more info on correcting this. I just did a
search and found this interesting workaround.

Permatime. <http://permatime.com/>

Imagine you want to arrange a phone call across different time zones. Simply
set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for
it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own
local time zone (and any other zones they choose).