Daylight Saving Time

[jr40usa]

Since the daylight saving time change. We are having trouble with users calender appointments being 1 hour off. We are using Exchange 5.5/Outlook 2000. In Outlook we had them check the box indicating adjustment for daylight saving time. After 2 days the time changed back an hour again. This seems to be only happening with our 2000 and XP users only. We were able to correct the problem with our XP users, but not the Windows 2000 users. Any ideas what is causing this.

Thanks in advance.

 

[markdmac]

Does your server have the right time on it? How about the workstation?

Have you configured an authoritative time server for your environment?

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[jr40usa]

Yes to all of the questions. We have verified all times with the same results.

 

[dforney]

Are the appointments that are 1 hour off recurring appointments that were set up before the time change or new appontments. Does the 'current time' indicator on the calandar indicate current time or hour off?

Kinda shooting in the dark but let me know..

 

[tmt7734]

Have you doubled chacked that all the workstaions and servers in your domain have the correct time zone setting and have DST enabled?

 

[jr40usa]

They are recurring appointments. The server and workstations in the domain are correct. We able to resolve this problem with XP by click on the clock in the system tray and selecting Internet Time then uncheck "Automatically
syncronize with an Internet time server.

 

[dforney]

Coupla things to try, XP syncs up nice but yes, the recurring appointments may go awry and I just saw an acknowledgement of a bug from a Microsoft Rep, but that MAY have been limited to the MSN system.

Since it is only your recurring items- check that the originator of the recurring appointment has DST adjusted.

If it is a group appointment, have the originator adjust the meeting by an hour.

Lastly - check that Exchange server again - is it getting it's time updates from anywhere and can you confirm the source? Does the event log show any anomalies? Even what appears to be an insignificant 'red x'. See if you can verify a successful W32time event.

David

 

[jr40usa]

With the check mark set for "Adjust for daylight saving time" the "current time" setting shows 1 hour ahead. When the check mark is removed it shows the current time.
The system time that displays in the sytem tray is current when the check mark is set, but the current time in Outlook 2000 is not...confused? I am.
We are on Central time.

 

[markdmac]

Sound like you just have the clocks set wrong. Check the box to adjust for DST and then set the time to the correct time. The system should manage it properly from there after.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[AJZnSD]

I ran into the same problem. When the "Auto adjust clock" was checked all appointments in there calendar were off an hour. Unchecked all calendar entries were ok for the exception of users reoccurring events were then off an hour. The work around I found was delete and recreate the users reoccurring events. This was the solution for me since the user only had three reoccurring. Hope this helps..

AJZ