Default time zones for imported events

[ajfisher]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

Recently upon importing my calendar events into Entourage (from Outlook) I noticed that all of the time zones had been changed to GMT instead of the time zone in which they were originally created (Pacific, GMT -7). My Entourage and Mac are set with Pacific as the default time zone. The events are displayed in my calendar at the "correct" time, but when I open them it shows the Event Time Zone as "Casablanca, Monrovia (Displayed)" and the time in GMT.

For example: an event which was created for Friday at 8:00 pm, GMT-7, appears in my calendar at that time, but when I open the event it appears at Saturday, 3:00 am, GMT.

I have over 4000 events. Even though they appear correctly in my calendar, is there any way to "mass edit" them so that the "Event time zone" is set as GMT-7, and not GMT?

Thanks!

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

Recently upon importing my calendar events into Entourage (from Outlook) I
noticed that all of the time zones had been changed to GMT instead of the
time zone in which they were originally created (Pacific, GMT -7). My
Entourage and Mac are set with Pacific as the default time zone. The events
are displayed in my calendar at the "correct" time, but when I open them it
shows the Event Time Zone as "Casablanca, Monrovia (Displayed)" and the time
in GMT.

For example: an event which was created for Friday at 8:00 pm, GMT-7, appears
in my calendar at that time, but when I open the event it appears at
Saturday, 3:00 am, GMT.

I have over 4000 events. Even though they appear correctly in my calendar, is
there any way to "mass edit" them so that the "Event time zone" is set as
GMT-7, and not GMT?

Thanks!

yes, it's possible with an applescript:

while I haven't tested it on my system (for obvious reasons), this
should do what you want. Paste the following script into script editor
(merge it all into one line) and press the run button. Then go make a
cup of tea.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to set time zone of (every event
whose time zone is 8) to 3

 

[ajfisher]

Thanks for the script, Barry - but I get an AppleScript error:

AppleScript Error
Microsoft Entourage got an error: Can't set time zone of every event whose time zone = 8 to 3

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

 

[leonolip]

Did you ever figure this out? I tried this script too and got the same error.
I've barely ever used applescript, but if this worked, I would not have to
manually change 1,000 events.