Outlook should use GMT correctly

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Mark Brookes - 03 Jun 2005 09:57 GMT

Whilst in British Summer Time (GMT+1) meeting requests sent to people that
arrive as email messages incorrectly identify the start time as being in GMT.
This has led to meeting participants not being informed of the correct start
time and missing the meeting. The help pages indicate that Outlook believes
that GMT includes daylight saving time - this is totally and definitively
incorrect. GMT definitively does not include daylight saving time.
It would be preferable for Outlook and all other Microsoft products which
use this incorrect definition of GMT should be modified to accord with the
correct definition.
One reference web-site (there are many others) is
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/.

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Pat Garard - 06 Jun 2005 11:04 GMT

G'Day Mark,

This is a bit of a delayed reply - sorry for that!

I agree with what you are saying.

I use a small Tool called TzEdit.exe - Time Zone Editor.

See: http://www.softshape.com/cham/manual/tzedit.htm.

I have edited the two Time Zones at [GMT + 00:00]
(London.... and Casablanca, Monrovia....) and removed all
reference to GMT in their descriptions (other than the reference
in the brackets above).

I have created a New Time Zone [GMT + 00:00] called UTC,
which has NO daylight saving time.

The London... Time Zone give me British Time (including British
Summer Time), the UTC gives me (true) GMT.

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Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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> Whilst in British Summer Time (GMT+1) meeting requests sent to people that
> arrive as email messages incorrectly identify the start time as being in
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> http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=71ad97fc-f7ce-4
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