This looks like it is a good workaround.

Three questions though.
1) I cannot see any options when running the tool. Does it change old appointments or just future ones? (I have appointments going back 10 years that I wouldn’t want changed!)

2) What does it do when you have invited someone to an appointment? Is it changed for them as well?

3) Can it just change all day appointments? Most future timed appointments are in for the right timezone.

Then you will have resolved this.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=%20E343A233-B9C8-4652-9DD8-AE0F1AF62568&displaylang=en

I’ve found threads similar to this dating back years. Is Microsoft ever going to fix this problem or will we be in time zone hell forever?

How hard can it be to implement such a simple solution which is obviously important to a lot of people? Add a checkbox called “Absolute time” when making an appointment, then display it as local time in the calendar if ticked or leave it as is if unticked. A couple of hours programming – we know it doesn’t get tested

Here is the link.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010223091033.aspx

And here’s the last question on there:
ou need appointments to be at fixed times no matter what time zone you are in.

You want an appointment to show on the Calendar at a fixed time no matter what the time zone is. For example, you want to be reminded to take your medication at the same absolute time regardless of the time zone you are in. However, when you change time zones, the appointment changes to reflect the new time zone.

Outlook can’t force an appointment to remain fixed when the time zone changes. If you need the appointment to stay at a fixed time, you should not change your current time zone. You can add the additional time zone to track the other time zone times. To change the time zone setting in Outlook without changing the times for each of your appointments, you must export the data from your Calendar folder, change the time zone setting, and then import the data into Outlook.

When you have all-day events on your Calendar and then change the time zone, the all-day events span two days instead of one.

Outlook treats anniversaries, holidays, and birthdays as all-day events (an all-day event is defined from midnight to midnight in the local time zone). When the time zones change, all-day events move. Therefore, when you change the computer’s time zone, the all-day event moves to display in the new time zone. An event, such as a holiday or birthday, will appear in the Calendar on two consecutive days. For example, a birthday could appear from 6 A.M. one day to 6 A.M. the next day.

You can do one of the following:

* Use the additional time zone feature in Outlook to display the local time zone and do not change the operating system time zone.
* Correct each all-day event for the current time zone setting.
* Change the time zone back to the one used when the items were created.

Thanks MS, that is all very useful information. Jerks

What you describe shouldn’t happen if everything is setup correctly. Every appointment, when created, is stamped with the originating time zone. So, if you’re in the US Eastern time zone and it’s stamped with an identifier for that (GMT -5). In addition, this time zone identifier also has any daylight savings adjustment embedded into it. So, your all day appointments should stay (as should your inline ones) in their appropriate places when the OS adjusts for daylight savings. All that’s needed is that you let the OS do the time adjusting (e.g. via the “Automatically Adjust for Daylight Savings Time” feature in Windows).

If you’re doing this, as it’s the default, and it’s still not working then you might have old appointments (very old at this point) that were created before the US Congress changed the dates for daylight savings. If this is the case, then these old appointments will have incorrectly embedded time change data in them. The fix for this was an optional patch to Outlook that enumerated through all your appointments in your Outlook calendar and adjusted the time zone info to the new US information.

Otherwise, I’m not sure why you’d be having this problem if you’re staying in one time zone and only dealing with that zone’s regular bi-annual time swap.