Premature Anniversary Date in Outlook (2002 (10.2627.3501) SP-1)

[CarreraMan]

When I schedule anniversaries or birthdays with Outlook they sometimes appear either the day before the scheduled date or range across the day before and the intended date. How do I correct this? Or, what have I done wrong?

Thanks,

Robert

[jscher2000]

"All day" events can shift an hour when daylight savings kicks in, or if the time zone is changed, particularly if Outlook is sync'd with a Palm or other program that doesn't handle times the exact same way as Outlook. If you look more closely and discover that, for example, the birthday runs from 11:00PM to 11:00PM the next day, that's your best bet as to the cause. Not sure of the fastest way to fix it.

[CarreraMan]

Thanks for the response. I agree with your analysis if I had personally scheduled the event, however, birthdays and anniversaries are provided by Microsoft as part of the contact record and recorded as a date without any mention of a time. One would asume that Microsoft in their wisdom would have accounted for variances in daylight savings time. Even so, why would they map a single date into a two day event?

What I find hard to believe is that I'm the only one experiencing this problem, although, admitedly it is not the end-of-the-world.

[jscher2000]

Well... I use Palm for calendaring, so I'll plead "no idea." <img src=/S/smile.gif border=0 alt=smile width=15 height=15>

[bdesilva]

I realize this is an old post but... I had the problem too with OL2k. I was hoping it had been fixed in XP.

[JohnBF]

Are either of you changing (moving across) time zones? That could be one possibility.

Are you setting these up as All Day Events without a specific hour timeframe? I don't have the problem described in either OL2000 or OL 2002 with neither MS installed US Holidays nor Anniversaries I have created when I set them up as All Day Events.

[bdesilva]

Actually I did a search on this forum and found that it's a common problem with birthdays etc when one changes time zone. That's what did happen to me when I moved from one to another. Now I have the new issue of figuing out how to handle stuff working in one time zone and living in another. I want appointments to STAY in the time zone I set them in for a change <G>.