To Do dates stuck in 1970?

[Hacksaw]

Entourage 2008

I created a To Do, and tried to set the date to a few days from now. First, the calendar it showed me was in 1970, which I found silly. I selected current month, and it showed me the right thing, but when I selected the day I wanted, the 8th, it put in Feb 8, 1970.

Then when I just typed in the year by hand and said to save it, it changed it to 1970, and then complained that I was setting a due date in the past!

What's up with that?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Then when I just typed in the year by hand and said to save it, it
changed it to 1970, and then complained that I was setting a due date in
the past!<br>

Check the date on your Mac. The battery that stores the information
might need to be replaced adn the Mac might be stuck in 1970 (the date
is typical and very indicative of this sort of problem - if that's not
it, then you need to reset the P-RAM by pressing command-alt-p-r while
rebooting the Mac until you hear 3 "bong"),

Corentin

 

[Hacksaw]

The Mac's date is correct. Also, even if it were wrong, why would it change it back to 1970 if I typed in the correct one by hand?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

The Mac's date is correct. Also, even if it were wrong, why would it change
it back to 1970 if I typed in the correct one by hand?

It should, but I've seen stranger things with wiped out PRAM and your
issue sure isn't common,
Did you try zapping the PRAM??

Corentin

 

[Hacksaw]

I tried it. No change. Got any other ideas?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I tried it. No change. Got any other ideas?

Welllllllllll,
Corrupted preference file?? You can try moving the Entourage preferenes
to the desktop and relaunching the application. After that, there is the
possibility that the problem lies in the database itself. You can launch
ENoturage pressing the alt key down to trigger the database utility and
rebuild your identity.

It's really guesses at this point since I believe it's the first time I
see this one,

Corentin

 

[Jake]

Welllllllllll,
Corrupted preference file?? You can try moving theEntouragepreferenes
to the desktop and relaunching the application. After that, there is the
possibility that the problem lies in the database itself. You can launch
ENoturage pressing the alt key down to trigger the database utility and
rebuild your identity.

It's really guesses at this point since I believe it's the first time I
see this one,

Corentin

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I have the exact same issue. Any other thoughts on this?

 

[john.dickison]

I'm suddenly having the same problem from today. Time & Date are fine
in the Mac OS, so it's definitely a problem in the Entourage Calendar
function. Old events are okay (so far) but any new event I try to set
defaults back to 1970 when I hit Save in File Menu (or the red window
button, since Entourage doesn't have a Save button).

 

[john.dickison]

I'm suddenly having the same problem from today. Time & Date are fine
in the Mac OS, so it's definitely a problem in the Entourage Calendar
function. Old events are okay (so far) but any new event I try to set
defaults back to 1970 when I hit Save in File Menu (or the red window
button, since Entourage doesn't have a Save button).

Temporary workaround - drag in Calendar space to make new event then
enter name and location for it in the graphic (ie. don't open the
dialog box). Removing Prefe file didn't help. Not too keen to try the
'rebuild identity' option - what does that actually do?

 

[Krista Harris]

I'm having same problem. Any new calendar item entered reverts to date entered in 1970, regardless of how I try to edit the field, select Today, etc. Any existing calendar item that I edit reverts to 1970. Very troubling...
Has anyone found a solution elsewhere yet?

 

[John Dickison]

I'm having same problem. Any new calendar item entered reverts to date entered
in 1970, regardless of how I try to edit the field, select Today, etc. Any
existing calendar item that I edit reverts to 1970. Very troubling...
Has anyone found a solution elsewhere yet?

Krista,
Per my earlier message, the following procedure may serve as a workaround
until we find out what is causing this problem:

"Temporary workaround - drag in Calendar space to make new event then
enter name and location for it in the graphic (ie. don't open the
dialog box)."

 

[John Dickison]

Come on Microsoft - let's have an answer!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Come on Microsoft - let's have an answer!

Microsoft rarely posts here. This is a peer-support group.


Corentin

 

[Mu Zhang[MSFT]]

Please let me know your OS language and format setting (system preference ->
International).
Also it would be great if someone could post a screenshot.

Thanks
Mu

Krista,
Per my earlier message, the following procedure may serve as a workaround
until we find out what is causing this problem:

"Temporary workaround - drag in Calendar space to make new event then
enter name and location for it in the graphic (ie. don't open the
dialog box)."

--
Mu Zhang
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

 

[John Dickison]

Mu,

I tried to send you a screenshot of what happens, but it bounced back. Can
you give me an address to send it to you? My OS language is English, though
I also frequently input in Japanese, and my International preferences are
set up as per another screenshot I can send you.

While we're at this, please note that my Event Time Zone keeps showing up as
Eastern US, even though I'm in Japan and have my computer time zone set up
to Japan Time (and have the Japan time zone checked under the Event menu).

Would greatly appreciate any help you can give.

Tks & rgds,
John

 

[John Dickison]

All,
I received the answer copied below from Mu Zhang of Microsoft, and this
fixed the '1970' problem for me:

"The 1970 issue is related to your date format settings. Entourage2008
doesn¹t support non standard format well. You may want to change to the
standard format such as ³United States² or ³United States (computer )² or
³Japanese² that comes with the OS if you don¹t mind. I tried changing the
short form from 080105 to 08/01/05 and Entourage works well with it."

In essence, don't try to customise the date format in the International
System Prefences pane. (I had a combination of Japan and US settings.)

Rgds, John

 

[Krista Harris]

Thanks very much to John and Mu!
This resolved the issue for me as well. I had customized my International date settings (just to be able to view date along with time in the upper right corner). When I changed back to "United States" for International format setting (and then restarted), the dates are now in this century!

Thanks for your help,
Krista

 

[Hacksaw]

Well, that explains it, but in the end I tried out OmniFocus from the OmniGroup, and I'm really digging that.

If I decide to look at MyDay again, I'll think about changing the date format.

Of course, I changed it for a reason... ;-)

Thanks for the info, folks.

 

[eriksson.js]

All,
I received the answer copied below from Mu Zhang of Microsoft, and this
fixed the '1970' problem for me:

"The 1970 issue is related to your date format settings. Entourage2008
doesn¹t support non standard format well. You may want to change to the
standard format such as ³United States² or ³United States (computer)² or
³Japanese² that comes with the OS if you don¹t mind. I tried changing the
short form from 080105 to 08/01/05 and Entourage works well with it."

In essence, don't try to customise the date format in the International
System Prefences pane. (I had a combination of Japan and US settings.)

Rgds, John

C'mon! Not EVERYBODY lives in the US and uses the standard US format.
I bought the full office suit and there is no good reason why I should
not be able to use a customized european time setting in my mac (which
works fine for ALL other free or bought software). Do I have to
request a refund for this office suite just because of a bug like
this? I sure will if there is no better solution than using a US
standard time format which is just not compatible here (Sweden).
Please help!

 

[Diane Ross]

C'mon! Not EVERYBODY lives in the US and uses the standard US format.
I bought the full office suit and there is no good reason why I should
not be able to use a customized european time setting in my mac (which
works fine for ALL other free or bought software). Do I have to
request a refund for this office suite just because of a bug like
this? I sure will if there is no better solution than using a US
standard time format which is just not compatible here (Sweden).
Please help!

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