View Calendar in another time zone

[Entelechy]

Hello All, (OL 2007 on XP Tablet)

Is there any way to view my Outlook calendar as it will be in another time
zone (beyond displaying a second time zone) without actually changing the
time zone on my PC?

I can see by the traffic here that I am not the only one with this
frutration. What I do not understand is why MSFT has not taken the obvious
fix. Here is the issue as I see it:

I sit in Central US time zone and make appointements all over the world.
Somer of those appointments I just put on my calendar. Others I use a
meeting request. So my calendar is a mix of items that respond differently
to time zone changes.

I also travel about 60%, visitng clients in 4 or 5 different time zones
ranging from Singapore to Cyprus. And to make life more compex, I use multi
day events to remind me what city I will be in on any given day.

All the issues here apply. Multi days dance back and forst has my time zone
changes. I sue teh time zone fields when I set appointments- even if they
are not with others so that teh appointments all adjust more or less
correclty when I get off the plane.

The big issue for me is that as I sit in Central US and try to set
appointments in London, Beijing, New York or Budapest, I have to constantly
deal wtih the difference in the time shown on my calendar and teh time in
that particlar time zone.

I would love to see a way to tell Outlook that a particular calendar item is
travel adn when I get there I will be in XX time zone so taht even if I am IN
central time zone, I am looking at my day as it will be when I get there.

Displaying a second time sone is somewhat helpful... but I have to change
too often and on the fly adn I need 3 04 4 at any given time. Surely it
cannot be taht hard to have a display layer that takes a calendar event with
an absolute time on it and tell the software what timezone I will be in when
it occirs- better done over a long period of time than on an event by event
basis.

I have been searchin for a third party add in or a solution withing Outlook-
but to no avail. Any suggestions? I cannot be the only person who wrestles
with this.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

outlook 20007's appointment form has a button called "time zone" - click it.
Then you can choose the time zone when you create the appointment.
http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2006/up060608.htm#2007

 

[Entelechy]

Thanks for responding, Diane. Maybe I was not clear... I sue the timezone
setting regularly. There is no issue about the calendar bein in synch with
another time zone when I get there. The issue is while I am still in my
office (or in any other time zone setting meetings and events that are not
local).

VIEWING my claendar is the issue. Short of resetting the time zone on my
PC, I have no way to view the caendar in teh time zone I WILL be in. MAc's
calendar lets you view your calendar in another TZ- which is somewhat helpful.

Ideally I would like to find a way to tell outlook that for an extended
block of days I will be in xxx timezone and have it display the event in that
TZ. I get on the phone and find myslef having to calculate differentials on
the fly so I do not set a meeting when I should not- or putting local times
into meeting headers to avoid confusion- which takes up a lot of space.

I may be wishing for the impossible, but i was hoping that someone knows of
an add-on tool that will put some muscle in time zone management for those of
us who travel.

Thanks

 

[Diane Poremsky]

unfortunately, outlook will not allow you to do that - you need to use the
dual time zone feature instead or a calendar program that only supports
static times.