Re: Entourage Calendar events wrong when Exchange server in the US and Entourage in the UK!!!

From: Barry Wainwright (barry_at_mvps.org.INVALID)
Date: 01/13/05


Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:05:56 +0000

On 13/1/05 10:47 am, in article BE0C0259.4C5D%shaun.conn@commercequest.com,
"Shaun Conn" <shaun.conn@commercequest.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I posted this a while back but got no answers, so I thought Iıd try and be
> more specific...
>
> My Exchange server is in the US, and I am in the UK, using Entourage X.
> Whenever one of my UK colleagues sends me a calendar invite (they all use
> Outlook), the event is displayed in the moth view correctly, e.g. 09:00
> meeting, but when I open the event it shows the meeting starting at 04:00 ­
> presumably the US time!? My default timezone in calendar preferences is GMT.
> When I open the offending event I get this at the top of the window:
>
> ³Event and Computer Timezones do not match. In Calendar views, the event time
> is adjusted to display correctly²
>
> Events I enter manually all work OK!?
>
> How do I get Entourage X working in the UK with the Exchange server in the US?
>
> Anyone any ideas?
>
> Shaun

This would seem to be working as designed. The issue is confused by the fact
that it is UK account holders who are sending you the messages.

Understand that they donıt actually send Œyouı the invite. They send it to
the US Exchange server. I guess that their server is set up for PDT or
something similar, so their 9:00am appointment is translated to a 4:00pmPDT
one. This comes back to you, and Entourage recognises that the timezone is
different and displays the Œadjustedı time (9:00am) time in the calendar, so
it will appear right to you. This is all correct.

When you open the event, you see the advisory that the timezone for this
event is different to your calendar setting, because the Exchange server is
sending the event to you adjusted for PDT. The event itself is set in PDT,
so you see the PDT time in the time boxes. You can check this by going to
the options event toolbar item and selecting Œtimezoneı - you will see the
timezone that this event is set to as a checkmark in the list.

Everything is displaying correctly. The Exchange server has no way of
knowing what timezone their recipients are in, so it correctly sends out
events in itıs local time zone. Your version of entourage correctly
intercepts that timezone and adjusts the calendar display so the absolute
time is correct from your perspective. When you open the event, you see the
raw data, in itıs original form ­ correctly displayed.

-- 
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
        <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>


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