Eastern time zone wrong in Entourage 12.1.1?

[effjay]

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

When I go to Entourage -> Preferences -> Calendar to set the default time zone for new events, the Eastern time zone selection comes up as GMT-04:00.

All of my other calendars (iCal, Google Calendar, even Microsoft OWA and Office Outlook 2003 SP3) show that the Eastern time zone is set to GMT-05:00.

What is going on here? Is this an Entourage bug?

 

[Diane Ross]

When I go to Entourage -> Preferences -> Calendar to set the default time zone
for new events, the Eastern time zone selection comes up as GMT-04:00.

All of my other calendars (iCal, Google Calendar, even Microsoft OWA and
Office Outlook 2003 SP3) show that the Eastern time zone is set to GMT-05:00.

What is going on here? Is this an Entourage bug?

This same discussion is gong on in another list. Here is an explaination the
Paul Berkowitz gave that might help. Also see this link:

The World Clock - Time Zones <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/>UTC is
given at the bottom of the page)

Paul's explaination:

Currently, we are in Daylight savings Time, and the UK is in British Summer
Time. (But be careful in October and March/April: the dates for changing
time are not the same on the two countries.)

So during both winter and summer - aside from those dates at the margins -
Eastern Time is 5 hours earlier than British time.

But GMT is fixed - it does not change in the summer. GMT remains GMT. So any
email that purports to tell you Eastern time vs. GMT - if that's what it
does - must show you -5 during EST and -4 during EDT.

No one here believes that *any* email client set up properly to reflect
current local time correctly - i.e. as EDT when it's EDT - will show
anything but -4 during EDT. If it shows -5 then either a) the email client
or the computer is not set up correctly (probably), or b) it's wrong.

Email clients should not be showing hours from British Summer Time, but
always hours from GMT (= UTC). Eastern Standard Time is -5, and eastern
Daylight Time is -4. That's just a fact. Email clients are set up to reflect
that. Any email client telling you something else has been set up wrong by
the user. Some email clients just have you change the time manually -
Entourage *used* to be like that once upon a time - and may not know whether
you are in Daylight or Standard Time - they just reflect what you set. Some
people probably set it wrong, just happy they have the time correct.
Entourage is tied to the computer setting, which can set itself
automatically, and will be correct if your System prefs are set to check the
time automatically.

Hope this helps.

 

[effjay]

The bottom line is that my Entourage calendar is incorrect. All of the other calendars (Google Calendar, iCal, Office Outlook 2003 SP3, and OWA) are in sync with each other. Entourage is not.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

The bottom line is that my Entourage calendar is incorrect. All of
the other calendars (Google Calendar, iCal, Office Outlook 2003 SP3,
and OWA) are in sync with each other. Entourage is not.

Currently the U.S. is under Daylight Saving time. Eastern Daylight Time
(EDT) is in effect and not Eastern Standard Time (EST). Eastern time is
currently GMT -4 until we go out of Daylight Saving time sometime in
November. This page will verify the offset
<http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/gmt_.shtml>. Indiana, Kentucky or
Tennessee may actually be different if you're in any of those states.

Both Entourage and iCal use the Mac OS X system time. To say iCal is
reporting EST or GMT -5 is incorrect. Setting the time zone in iCal
offers the ability to set "US/Eastern" and Daylight Saving is
automatically displayed as "EDT".

Google is simply displaying "standard time" offsets and not "saving
time" offsets. Its display is incorrect although I suspect its
calculation for for DST for Eastern is currently GMT -4 as it should be.

Outlook allows you to set the Eastern time zone and also displays the
"standard time" offset. However, it does have a checkbox to adjust for
"saving time". When that checkbox is selected then Outlook should
recognize Eastern time as GMT -4.

I'm not quite sure how Entourage could be out of sync with iCal since
they are both using the same system rules for time.

Make sure you have the correct default time zone set in Entourage under
Entourage menu --> General Preferences --> Calendar. Also make sure your
iCal time zone matches your Date & Time time zone found under Apple menu
--> System Preferences...

Hope this helps!

--

bill

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