Can anyone here explain to me why the XDA (or WIN2003PE) shifts appointment times whenever I change the timezone?
If I make an appointment to meet someone in Hong Kong next week at 10 a.m while I am still at home in Ireland, does that not mean I want to meet that person at 6 p.m. just because I arrived in HK and changed my time zone. I still want to meet that person at 10 am.
Am I too stupid to get the point or are the MS guys nuts?
Is there anything I can do to have my XDA show local time without unnecessarily shifting all my appointments?
Thanks a lot
That isn't the real problem. I find that about half the time I want the shift.
How it should work is that the location field should put the correct time in automatically. So if you say meeting in Hong Kong, you enter HK time etc. Which would be then timeshifted to your current location, but when you went to HK it would revert.
As it is you need to do the timezone calc yourself.
Must admit I have been very confused about what time a flight really is when I haven't done this.
There should be a TZ field in the appointments
I complertely agree with you. I work in 6 different timezones and it's really boring to have to make the calculation yourself...
I suggest my contact to send a outlook invite so that it comes at the right time...
Anybody knows of a PIM that is 100% PO compliant and supports the TZ feature?
Cheers,
Hal
I use City Time http://www.codecity.net/prodctppc.htm , it's not a PIM but it permit to add appointment based on location, you have only to specify the city where you will have the appointment and the program will add the appointment to your PIM at the correct time.
Example:
I'm in italy but i have to write an appointment to a meeting that will be on mexico city at 18:00 on 20/02/2006
On the Travel Itinerary view of city time i add an "appointment" where i have to write: date (20/02/2006), time (from 18:00 to 20:00) and select the city "mexico city". Then the program will add an appointment to my PIM for 21/02/2006 from 1:00 to 2:00 (there is 7 hours difference between mexico and italy) and all the correct time of the appointment written on the notes. Then when i will travel to mexico and i will change the time of my PPC the appointment for the meeting will appear on the PIM to the correct time giving me the alarm when i need it.
Maybe it's not the best solution but it work without every time calculate the time when will be the appointment on the other country.
You are right
I think the default should be that if I enter an appointment at 11AM when I will be in another country, it should stay at 11AM. It is true that if the appointment is a phone call, one usually enters it in their local timezone and it needs to shift with the timezone, but I'd be happy to change those manually and have the default be to not change. Moreover this seems to be the way Outlook itself works
It looks to me like a klugy way of implementing this, for those who sync with Outlook, is to sync, break the connection, change the timezone and time on the PC, then sync again with "PC overwrites PPC" option in activesync.
I think I have experienced this problem
I didn't even cross time zones. I traveled about 150-200 miles and instead of Tmo under the network I was connected to it had a 6 digit number (310 890 I think). All my appointments shifted. But they didn't shift the same amount. Some shifted by 15:15 and others shifted by 27:15 (hours:minutes). I hadn't set the visiting time zone since last hard reset so it was at its default in Madrid, Spain. If they had all shifted the same amount I would assume that it went to the TZ in Madrid but 2 different shifts???
Vectre said:
I didn't even cross time zones. I traveled about 150-200 miles and instead of Tmo under the network I was connected to it had a 6 digit number (310 890 I think). All my appointments shifted. But they didn't shift the same amount. Some shifted by 15:15 and others shifted by 27:15 (hours:minutes). I hadn't set the visiting time zone since last hard reset so it was at its default in Madrid, Spain. If they had all shifted the same amount I would assume that it went to the TZ in Madrid but 2 different shifts???
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Yes, I disable network time update for this reason.
Hi,
I get SMS messages from different countries, in different time zones.
When the SMS arrives it has a date and time sent.
I cant work out the rule of this date and time.
1) Is it time of country sending SMS
2) Is it GMT time of sending
3) Is it my local time of when SMS was sent.
Eg
At 4.00pm New Zealand time I got this SMS from Singapore. Time sent was 6.00 AM in MS outliook sms window.
4.00PM NZ time is
4.00 AM GMT
12.00 Noon in Singapore
So go figure ....any ideas
But local singapore time
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Did a forum search but could not find this question asked
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