[Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

[Garl Grigsby]

> At work, I updated my Windows machine today, and sure enough, I looked 
> at an Outlook weekly appointment for next week that should show for 
> 9am. It shows as 10am. For the next three weeks, the appointment shows 
> at 10am. Then starting in April, the appointment shows correctly again 
> -- 9am for the remaining weeks of the year. Even the last week in 
> October shows correctly, suggesting to me that the MS patch fixed only 
> the March dates.
There is a tool to correct appts in the 'in between weeks'. It needs to 
be run on both the client and, assuming exchange, the server side. [1] 
As I understand it the server just stores the date and time, but not the 
UTC offset. This is why there are sooooo many problems with creating 
meetings across timezones in exchange/outlook. If I create an all day 
appt in PST, it shows as starting at 9pm the day before and ending at 
9pm the day of, in EST. Lovely, eh?

Garl

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931667/en-us