All day events and time zone

Outlook 2010 addresses this problem - all day events pin to the day.

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"Ed" wrote in message
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Right now the check box is pointless. If I want to create a 24 hour
meeting, or a 23 hour meeting, or a 25 hour meeting, I can, without the
need
to check the box. "All-day Event" should absolutely pin it to that day.
Every single Outlook user I know is annoyed by all-day events splitting
across dates. Or just add another checkbox already. Sheesh.



"CSMR" wrote:

The all-day-event calender item type that is used for
birthdays/anniversaries/public holidays refers to an actual 24-hour
period of
time and changes with time-zone, leading to these events overlapping two
days. There may be some all day events that should respond like this but
not
birthdays/anniversaries. Public holidays are currently added in the time
zone
of the user, not the country that has the holidays.

If you enter a birthday/anniversary in a contact item, it will give make
it
a 24 hour period in the time zone you are in. That is wrong on many
counts.
Firstly a birthday is not a particular 24 hour period of time independent
of
place, it is a date. Secondly if it were a 24 hour period it would not be
your country but the user's country that determines the time zone, or to
be
very pedantic, his place of birth. Similarly for anniversaries.

If you are in one country A and want to know the national holidays from a
country B in another time zone, then they are added as 24 hour events in
your
time zone. If then you move to country B then national holidays in that
country are listed as spanning 2 days.

There should be a type of event that is attached to a date, not a
time-span.
Birthdays and anniversaries should create this type of event by default.
National holidays should either create this type of event by default or a
24-hour event in the time zone of the nation with the holidays, not the
user's.

In importance national holidays are not very significant but birthdays
and
anniversaries are useful things to be reminded about and with many
contacts
having birthdays span two days is not only incorrect but results in a
confusing display of information.

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