Well, this is a problem I’ve finally solved and it has nothing to do with Vista. It seems that when you change Windows’ time zone setting (as I’ve moved from Mountain to Central) Outlook reacts by adjusting the times of everything in your calendar. So, an appointment for April that I said was from 10-11am that I set while in MST was moved to 11am-12pm CST since that would technically be correct. Trouble is, the meeting still being held at 10am local time. (This gets worse when an “all day” appointment gets changed to 1am on one day to 1am the next day.) Well, a quick search and I found not only an answer but also an explanation of the issue. Check out Outlook, Appointments and Time Zones if you’re interested.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Of Time Zones and Appointments”
This is cool! I wish I had known about it or thought to look for something like this when I moved from Colorado (Mountain time) to California (Pacific time). Then I wouldn’t have had to go in and make so many changes.
This is cool! I wish I had known about it or thought to look for something like this when I moved from Colorado (Mountain time) to California (Pacific time). Then I wouldn’t have had to go in and make so many changes.
As usual, you rock.