Outlook not correctly importing .vcs file

As expected means that opening the vcs from my hard drive opens it with the
time of 9 -11. When I save it to the calendar and change the time zone to
PT, the 9 -11 appointment moves to 6 -8. This is all expected.
http://slipstick.me/jing/tz.png - this is Outlook 2003. I pasted the vcs
code into notepad and saved, then opened it. Changed the time zone, reopened
the vcs. It's 9 am in the current time zone.

This worked in both Outlook 2003 and 2010 the other day.

However, today its acting weird in outlook 2010/Win 7. When I change the
time zone and reopen the vcs, the time adjusts - based on the differential
between the old time zone and the new one. It is not opening based on the
UTC - I'm in ET (-4 right now) and the first appointment is for 9 am.
Saving it and changing the time zone then reopening the vcs from my hard
drive - and the vcs has adjusted so its still on 9 AM ET.

Because of this weirdness, I decided to bring up Outlook 2007. It uses UTC
time - the appointment is 5am. This is what you see in 2000 and 2002,
correct?



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"webgurupc" webgurupc.49l6kc@invalid wrote in message
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So many thanks for your reply. This thread is really getting interesting
now.

I have read & reread your reply and am hoping I have made sense of it.
Please forgive me if I interperated your reply incorrectly.

When its first opened, it will be on 9 -11, but when you change the
computer's time zone, it will stay on 9-11 in the time zone you used
when
you added it to the calendar. It will not float to 9 -11 in every time
zone - but it will be added to 9 -11 if you reopen it from the hard
drive.

Correct - this is what is happening in Outlook 2002 & 2000

Once the apointment is made in outlook it will move as per timezone -
but this part doesn't interest me. Just the part that one cannot add a
NEW appointment with a floating timezone (without the "z" ) to outlook
as one used to be able to do.

It works as expected in Outlook 2010 and 2003

I don't understand your "as expected"? Do you mean it floats without
the Z?

Here it works correctly. (real sorry about the video quality -
somewhere between me and utube it went fuzzy)
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value="http://www.youtube.com/v/goCu5cOj0lw&hl=en&fs=1"/paramparam
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam
name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/goCu5cOj0lw&hl=en&fs=1"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object


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So many thanks for giving this your attention.

First up just to clarify I am not interested in saving the appointment
or what happens once it is saved in outlook. Forget save at all. Do not
save the appointment.

My only interst is in opening it as a NEW appointment off the hard
drive as a vcs file.

In outlook 2000 & 2002, without the z the appointment floats, that is
it always opens at 9am to 11 am, no matter what timezone outlook is set
to (WHEN IT IS OPENED AS A NEW APPONTMENT). See the video.

Later versions of Outlook convert the appointment to UTC when it is
opened off the hard drive as per your picture at
http://slipstick.me/jing/tz.png

So to sum up there is a difference between the behaviour of Outlook
versions 2000-2003 and those Outlook versions released after that.


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webgurupc;140632 Wrote:

So to sum up there is a difference between the behaviour of Outlook
versions 2000-2003 and those Outlook versions released after that.

Oops. That should read Outlook versions 2000-2002


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