Time Zone Disaster--All Outlook Appointments Bite the Dust
Woke up this morning, and Vista tells me that it has been notified that GMT has changed. And that is has to update all 1729 appointments in my Outlook calendar. I can't tell what's up, so it goes ahead and does it. Now EVERY SINGLE full-day appointment spans two days, from 11PM to 11PM. WTF? Of course, I'm using Exchange server, so every copy of the data is now wrong.
First off: Is there any explicable reason why Outlook, 10 years later, STILL uses appointments from 12AM to 12PM to signify full-day events? And why it gets so screwed up on time zone issues? (Try this for an experiment: Temporarily change your time zone. In Outlook, all full-day appointments are now shifted, and full-day events that take a single day now show up on two different dates. Switch back to the original time zone, and things are corrected. That's just stupid. Sorry. A full-day event is a full-day event, no matter what time zone I'm in.)
Second: Why on earth did Vista decide that its understanding of GMT was wrong, and that it had to change it?
Finally: Why am I still using this product that has continued to cause me fits of anger since its inception?
So now, most (but not ALL) appointments in Outlook are off by an hour. Plane flights. Conference schedules. And I don't know which ones are wrong. It's like Vista and Outlook have conspired to just shake all the appointments out of my calendar, and then put them back in whereever they like. Can I slit my wrists now?
UPDATE: Whew. Things are OK on the Vista machine. It's only on the notebook (running XP) where things are still messed up. But how is that a good thing? When I'm on the road, all the times are wrong? And I can't fix them on the laptop, or they'll get messed up on the Vista desktop. Gotta love it.