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Outlook 2007: See people's calendars in their own time zone?

Dec 22, 2010 11:08PM PST

If someone in the Eastern Time Zone is viewing a person's calendar who is in the Central Time Zone - is there a way make the times STAY in the Central Time Zone when viewing? I really only want to do this for "all day" appointments. For example, someone takes a vacation day today. Because they're on Central time and I'm on Eastern time, in my calendar it shows them being out from 1:00 AM today until 1:00 AM tomorrow, which causes their vacation day to show in my calendar for two days.

I've been Googling and haven't found a solution.

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I'm going with no.
Dec 23, 2010 3:04AM PST

The discussion of how calendars should handle this is very long. I will not repeat all that here since you can read the long discussions.

Today, it's widely accepted that a calendar with shared appointments will adjust for your time zone that you are in.

So it's very proper for their vacation to move across days.
Bob

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Yeah, that's what I'm finding also
Dec 23, 2010 3:39AM PST

There doesn't appear to be a way to do it due to the way Outlook determines what time it is. It's annoying but the only way to correct it would be to set my computer to Central time, which would be even more annoying (for me).

It would be nice if Outlook was coded so that "all day" meant midnight to midnight regardless of time zone, but it isn't.

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Then it would be broken. Here's why.
Dec 23, 2010 3:57AM PST

Let's use your example of the other person in another TZ and they take off 1 full day.

If you pull up your calendar and it showed it as you wanted you would see that Tuesday they would not be on Vacation and call them up yet due to the TZ they are gone.

Next thing you know is that folk complain it's wrong (again.)
Bob

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I could do it in Excel
Dec 23, 2010 4:04AM PST

but that would mean manually typing calendar entries into an Excel spreadsheet. Unless Microsoft have some way of exporting such entries into other Office apps? I don't know.

But in Excel I could 'move time' forward or back as necessary to suit whatever time zone I am in.

It's not a solution, only a workaround, but it would be made easier if importing and exporting were available.

Mark