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Brenfun2 - 30 Nov 2004 17:21 GMT

I would like to set items in Outlook that change time zones. When I fly, I
have flights that land at a time before I take off. Or I may change time
zones and have meetings that overlap on Outlook though they are at different
times.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 01 Dec 2004 05:13 GMT

How would Outlook know where it was being used?

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After furious head scratching, Brenfun2 asked:

| I would like to set items in Outlook that change time zones. When I
| fly, I have flights that land at a time before I take off. Or I may
| change time zones and have meetings that overlap on Outlook though
| they are at different times.

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Don Bergquist - 09 Mar 2005 17:59 GMT

Outlook would know where it was being used by looking at the "Local Time
Zone" set in the Options menu.

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> How would Outlook know where it was being used?
>
> | I would like to set items in Outlook that change time zones. When I
> | fly, I have flights that land at a time before I take off. Or I may
> | change time zones and have meetings that overlap on Outlook though
> | they are at different times.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 10 Mar 2005 06:53 GMT

If your defined local time zone is PST (Tijuana, blah, etc.) and you fly to
NY (EST, whatever) does your actual entry in the Calendar Options change??

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After furious head scratching, Don Bergquist asked:

| Outlook would know where it was being used by looking at the "Local
| Time Zone" set in the Options menu.
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||| change time zones and have meetings that overlap on Outlook though
||| they are at different times.

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Don Bergquist - 21 Mar 2005 18:05 GMT

By allowing the user to add a time zone to the event times, the system would
be able to use the time zone for the event start time as PST (GMT -8) as the
start of the event (say a flight) and the New York time zone (GMT - 5) for
the end of the flight three hours later. The problem with the way it works
now, I have one choice. I can manually calculate the offset time on either
end of the event. If, like me, travel between time zones is often, there are
not enough time zones to display all the time zones I will be in in a single
day, week, etc. Changing the times for display every time change my physical
location is a hassle... updating my location changes where the untimed events
appear on the calendar.

What I would like to see is it allow me to say that my flight from Tiajuana
leaves at 08:00 PST and arrives in New Your at 14:00 EST and have the system
plot a three-hour block of time for the actual duration of the time. The
abbreviation for time zone could be displayed in the block with the times if
the user chose to do so but the time zone down the side would show what ever
time zone(s) I had as my display time zone(s).

> If your defined local time zone is PST (Tijuana, blah, etc.) and you fly to
> NY (EST, whatever) does your actual entry in the Calendar Options change??
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> ||| change time zones and have meetings that overlap on Outlook though
> ||| they are at different times.

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