Platform: Windows 2000 Professional
Outlook 2000
(Same problem was with Outlook 97 & 98 and Win NT 4.0)

I'm so angry at Microsoft, I could just spit!

If you change the Date/Time Properties for your computer, so that "Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes" is checked/selected, the Tools|Options|Preferences|Calendar Options|Time Zone "Adjust for daylight saving time" setting in Outlook 2000 also changes. Changing this setting in either place affects the other place.

This totally screws up existing appointment times.

This results of a time shift of one hour for all existing appointments. Making full-day events now appear in month view as TWO-day events (starting at 1:00 am and finishing at 1:00 am the next day instead of midnight to midnight) and changing 3:00 pm appointments to 4:00 pm.

What idiot thought up this scheme?

I mean if I was on the phone to someone last week, making an appointment for 3:00 pm one day this week, it's for three-bloody-pm, REGARDLESS of time zone or daylight savings time. I do NOT want appointment times changed by the computer!

The same holds true when you change time zones. If I'm in Eastern Time and make an appointment with someone on Pacific Time for 3:00 pm THEIR time, when I get there, if I dare to change my computer so that it's on Pacific Time instead of Eastern, the appointment time gets changed to noon. (I like to arrive early for appointments but this is ridiculous!)

What idiot thought up this scheme? (Or did I ask that already?)

Has anyone found a way to beat this thing into submission?

(Don't suggest turning off "Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes" in Date/Time Properties, as if you use any clock adjusting program via the Internet to set your clock to the correct time, you need to have this set correctly for your location otherwise the time set is wrong.)

I go through this hell twice per year and I can't believe others aren't also complaining. What I've had to do up to now, and just won't do it again, is manually edit hundreds of appointments in Outlook so that they return to the correct time. It's a major PITA.

Anyone?