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Thank you for your reply. I do appreciate it very much.
I understand how it works but still, it is for me like having one more thing
to
remember and I have so many things to remember that I would prefer to be
freed from it. What if being in a constant rush I will enter an appointment
forgetting
that I have to assign correct time zone to it? Again, it will be moved to a
different
one after time zone change in my PC. Additionally, it will slow down entering
data, as I will always have to figure it out what time zone to select for
different
parts of the world. Is a city using this one or that one? In US it is
relatively easy,
but travelling across the world I have duties all over the globe and I would
prefer
to think only once what time zone I am currently in while changing time zone
in
my notebook computer after landing there instead of thinking about it every
time
while entering data into my calendar. It may be in some circumstances
confusing
and difficult to find out during a phone converstaion with someone with whom
I am talking and planning things whether a city is still using this or that
time zone.
As I already wrote, 2:00 PM is 2:00 PM for me. When I am opening my eyes
in Buenos Aires and am checking my plans for a day, I see an appointment at
2:00
PM and I want to be 100% sure that it is not wrong just because I did not
assign
correct time zone while storing this entry. I am sure that even having this
new
feature that alows us to assign proper time zone for entries I will be still
not using
it as this is completely useless for someone who is changing location
constantly and
travelling not only within US, but all over the world. To much complicated
in my
opinion and to complex. Believe me, when I accepted (with pain of course)
the fact,
that I can not change time zone in my PC to keep my calendar perfectly
correct, my
life has changed for better. But it is pity that in order to make things
clear and
correct I have to keep my computer set for one time zone and being now in
Europe
I have to always check time using my watch instead of seeing it on my
computer screen which is showing me always MST.
By the way, could you also tell me what happens with all those appointments
set
for MST when I am changing computer's time zone? Is Outlook still showing
2:00 PM after the change or only the appointments set for particular time zone
I am currently in are on place? If everything is shifted except the
appointments
for the zone I am currently in it is again useless for me, as I need to see
at what
time and on which day I will be performing a concert in Tokyo when sitting in
a hotel in Berlin and talking to my Japanese manager. So I always need to see
original time planned for an activity somewhere in the world because in any
other
case I will have to jungle with time zone settings of my PC to see the
truth, and
for instance, being in Berlin I and talking over the phone to my Japanese
partner
I will have to momentarily switch to his time zone to tell him at what time
we will
be eating dinner.
Am I completely wrong? I do not know how it works in Outlook 2007 so I assume
that I may be completely wrong.
> outlook 2007 does not have an option to lock appointments to set time
> periods, but it does give you the option of creating appointments for a
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Brian Tillman - 23 Aug 2006 15:28 GMT
> What if being in a constant rush I will enter an
> appointment forgetting
> that I have to assign correct time zone to it? Again, it will be
> moved to a different
> one after time zone change in my PC.
Why are you changing the PC's time zone and not simply using the alternate
time zone feature in Outlook?

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Brian Tillman
Vladimir - 06 Sep 2006 08:48 GMT
And what if you work and travel across several time zones?!?!
And what if MS doesn't get timezones always right (TRY ISRAEL DUDE)?
I agree with KJJmobile.
I am going nuts for years now because of this problem.
> > What if being in a constant rush I will enter an
> > appointment forgetting
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> Why are you changing the PC's time zone and not simply using the alternate
> time zone feature in Outlook?
Josh Einstein - 26 Aug 2006 06:16 GMT
That's the way it SHOULD be. When you change the time zone on your PC, that
doesn't change the fact that an appointment is set for a specific point in a
constant time zone (UTC). So in the new time zone, you will perceive the
appointment differently, but it's still occurring at the same universal
point in time.
The solution is to be diligent about creating the appointments in the
relevant time zone. This is the best and most predictable way to do it and
Outlook 2007 makes this a piece of cake.
Now where I can agree with you would be all day appointments. The problem
with these is no matter what time zone you create them in, even UTC, when
you change time zones, they'll appear to span two days instead of one for
example. All day events should snap to the boundaries of the day they're set
for no matter what the time zone.

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> Thank you for your reply. I do appreciate it very much.
> I understand how it works but still, it is for me like having one more
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