Timezones in Outlook/Exchange

[David Thielen]

Hi;

We're hitting major timezone problems with our appointments, the
biggie being we set the times for airline flights and appointments
where we are going - and everything is off if where we are going is in
a different time zone.

The problem is we have iPhones that sync the calendar but switch to
the local time zone when the plane lands. And we swith our laptops to
the local timezone too upon landing. And with that, we have items
showing the correct local time and others that are wrong and we have
to carefully fix them all.

I figure since I have written office AddIns, I can write a utility to
handle this. I assume Exchange stores a timezone for each calander
event since the UTC of a recurring event changes when DST kicks
in/out. Can I access and set that as an AddIn that is a popup in the
calender event setter?

If so, how?

thanks - dave


david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

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[Dmitry Streblechenko]

Outlook and Exchange store all date/time values in UTC (there are a few
exceptions).
It also stores the TZ information of the appointment start/end time (the TZs
can be different).
Look at the appointment with MFCMAPI or OutlookSpy (click IMessage)

--
Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool
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[David Thielen]

Ok, I'll dive into it. I assume the TZ includes if it's DST.

thanks - dave

Outlook and Exchange store all date/time values in UTC (there are a few
exceptions).
It also stores the TZ information of the appointment start/end time (the TZs
can be different).
Look at the appointment with MFCMAPI or OutlookSpy (click IMessage)

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

Yes, the TZ info includes both DST on and off dates.

--
Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool
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