Re: Pub Folder Calendar & Summer Time problem

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From: Arild (bulle_at_start.no)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:45:05 +0200

Our company experienced a similar problem, and after some investigation we
found that some of our newest PCs were set to NOT auto adjust for Daylight
Savings Time - changed that and everything worked OK: No more one-hour skew
when scheduling. But for those few days we had quite a few chaotic
discussions and delays on overlappping meetings.

"Nick" <nospam.please@spamhating.domain.me> skrev i melding
news:376801c42963$5e9dfd90$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi All,
>
> Forgive me if this is a simple question, however shared
> Calendar folders in Public Folders seem to have a problem
> with DST changeover. The issue is that all appointments
> that have been made by a client computer *prior* to the
> switch to DST later skew forward by an hour when your
> client computer then moves into DST time.
>
> I can't for the life of me figure out the mechanism of
> this problem as it doesn't occur in private calendars or
> on email timestamps, and frankly I would have thought all
> such things would be tracked against UTC time + offset.
>
> Server is Win2003, Exchange2003, timezone is GMT + auto
> adjust for Daylight Savings Time and sync'd with an NTP
> service.
>
> Can anyone shed any light for me?
>
> Cheers and thanks in advance

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