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Bizarre calandar bug:  all day appointments changed for no reason

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Joe G. - 16 Feb 2007 11:55 GMT
Last month, I made a year long "on call" schedule using Outlook.  Each day
there are a series of "appointments" that I set up, such as "Doctor A on
call".  "Doctor B Off".  "Doctor C On Vacation".   Worked great, as I liked
the ability to drag and drop appointments as I created the schedule, much
easier than by hand.

Today, I went to make a couple of revisions, and I noted that all of the
appointments in the month of March had been changed.  Each individually was
now spanning 2 days.  For example, March 10 appointment for "Doctor C On
Call" was now spanning March 10-11.  When looking at the appointment in
detail, the date of the appointment had changed to include both days;  the
time said 1 am to 1 am;  and all day event remained checked.  Very bizarre,
and very much a pain as I had to manually go into each appointment and change
them back to include only the one day, with appropriate midnignt to midnight
time.

Very scary, all that hard work and somehow the computer changed dozens of
appointments.

Between the time I set up the schedule and now, I did convert from the Trial
version to the full version by activating with a product key (purchased from
a store), but I have no idea if this is when the bug occurred.

Any ideas?  Is the software this unstable?

Joe
Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] - 17 Feb 2007 03:10 GMT
This issue was caused by an update to Outlook that allowed for the changes in
the dates of Daylight Saving Time in 2007.  For more information, see the
following article:  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931667

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> Last month, I made a year long "on call" schedule using Outlook.  Each day
> there are a series of "appointments" that I set up, such as "Doctor A on
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Joe G. - 17 Feb 2007 13:08 GMT
Wow.  Perhaps I'll get a chance to read through this, but looks intimidating.
Thanks for pointing me in this direction.

Bottom line, now that I went in and fixed the events that were affected,
should this problem no longer recur?  Or do I need to do anything proactively
now?

Thanks again.

Joe

> This issue was caused by an update to Outlook that allowed for the changes in
> the dates of Daylight Saving Time in 2007.  For more information, see the
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 17 Feb 2007 21:52 GMT
Since this is the first year for the DST changes and no other changes are anticipated for now, it should persist for upcoming years.  However, you know our politicians... never say never.

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pat - 23 Feb 2007 18:16 GMT
you span an appt for awhole day.  dst starts in march on th 11th instead of the 2nd.

your all day appt is bumped 1 hour..which in essence moves it from 12 am to 12 am to the new time of 1 am to 1 am

but you told it to be the whole day....so it is doing what you told it to do....the whole day both days.

your system needs to be patched for the new dst time fram

i wont be checking back here anymore...so you are on your own for patches.

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