Comments for Socket Jockeying http://socketjockeying.com Dispatches from the Petascale World Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:34:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Outlook All Day Events & Timezones (God Help Me) by Dave http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4942 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:34:53 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4942 2012 and still the same issues

]]> Comment on Outlook All Day Events & Timezones (God Help Me) by Dave http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4941 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:34:14 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4941 2012 and still the same issues….

]]> Comment on Outlook All Day Events & Timezones (God Help Me) by William Jenner http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4939 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:09:21 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4939 Glad to find this thread – even if it is 4 years after the original post. This Outlook problem is absurd. I travel four weeks to Germany then am back in the U.S. for ten days. The “all day event” is simply removed when I switch time zones (in either direction) and I end up with two-day “events” that, as others have mentioned, also then start on the wrong date from what I originally put in.

There is no way that Microsoft can claim this is “desired behavior” because it’s not even logical. It should be possible to add a checkbox that makes an event “time zone independent” (or “absolute”) on your own computer. If that box is checked and you change time zones, the original DATE would be the driver – not the time zone. If you’re inviting people in other time zones, then the event should be fixed in their time zone as well. Nobody’s would switch. This really doesn’t seem like such a complex tweak to me.

I don’t know why so many companies insist on Outlook. I think it is terrible in many other ways than just the time zone problem.

]]> Comment on Outlook All Day Events & Timezones (God Help Me) by Eddie http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4899 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:41:05 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4899 Chris,

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.

]]> Comment on Outlook All Day Events & Timezones (God Help Me) by Cridgit http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4898 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:53:26 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4898 Chris, thank you for posting this link. Too bad I moved over to Gmail about 9 months ago but it sure would have made my life easier for years (and maybe kept me on Outlook) :-)

]]> Comment on Outlook All Day Events & Timezones (God Help Me) by Christopher http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4897 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:53:24 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4897 Go to this link and follow the instructions, especially after the install.

Then you will have resolved this.

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

]]> Comment on Outlook All Day Events & Timezones (God Help Me) by CSMR http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4894 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:30:46 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4894 Please vote here to encourage Microsoft to fix the all-day event issue:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?cat=&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring&tid=470ccedc-c74d-49ad-8e44-a10e5bd84f2b&mid=470ccedc-c74d-49ad-8e44-a10e5bd84f2b&rmid=470ccedc-c74d-49ad-8e44-a10e5bd84f2b&helpful=1&p=1&stgxml=http%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com%2foffice%2fcommunity%2fen-us%2fsettings.xml

]]> Comment on Wish: Control iTunes on PC with Apple Remote by uroscion http://socketjockeying.com/2007/08/02/wish-control-itunes-on-pc-with-apple-remote/#comment-4893 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:27:11 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/08/02/wish-control-itunes-on-pc-with-apple-remote/#comment-4893 Thats right, please see my blog post on how to use the Apple Remote with a PC. It’s not hard to do, but limited in capacity. Someone needs to write a software controller that will interpret the remote signals based on application profiles, or a plugin signal interpreter for iTunes specifically.

]]> Comment on The Motorola Q: A Field Report by John http://socketjockeying.com/2006/11/27/the-motorola-q-a-field-report/#comment-4891 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:39:23 +0000 http://socketjockeying.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/the-motorola-q-a-field-report/#comment-4891 I have always wanted a compendium of novena prayers. Thank you for sharing all these prayers with us. It brings joy and happiness to everyone. I know, I do feel that way.f

]]> Comment on Outlook All Day Events & Timezones (God Help Me) by Shannon http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4889 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:29:44 +0000 http://socketjockeying.com/2007/02/27/outlook-all-day-events-timezones-god-help-me/#comment-4889 I just went from GMT-7 to GMT-10 , then back to GMT-7. All of my “all day” events are now on the calendar the day before they were originally scheduled.

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?

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