Vista - Calendar reminders 2 hours off

For some reason, my email calendar reminders are always 2 hours off. If I
set an appointment for 6:30 I get an email telling me the appointment is at
4:30. I look at the calendar entry, it's still at 6:30. Is there a timezone
setting somewhere I'm missing? I'm running Build 14.0.8064.0206.
Any help appreciated

Let me guess, you're in CST? The servers that hold the calendar are in
Pacific time which would account for the 2 hour difference.
The calendar however should respect your time zone.
If you go to calendar.live.com then click on Options/More options you can
set your time zone there. Make sure you have set it to the correct time
zone.

Colin Brown
WL MVP

"dmc" <dmc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I actually happened to log in to the webpage for the first time and it
prompted me and you are right, the default was PST and I am in CST. I
updated the TZ and it should be fixed now - Thanks!

"Colin Brown WLMVP" wrote:

"dmc" <dmc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0E8A7965-3750-4BD5-AD1F-94BF3CA140EB@xxxxxxi too have never noticed this. thanks colin.

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Chris

I experienced a related problem, when I travelled through
different time zones.

I live in the UK, where the local time is GMT (winter) or GMT +1
(daylight saving time). The time zone on the "calendar.live.com"
server - and the zone on my laptop computer have been set
correctly. The present date and time on my computer are also
correct.

I used my laptop during a recent visit to Australia and upon
arrival, I selected the local time zone (GMT +11) on my computer.
However, I did not change the settings on the central server at
calendar.live.com.

Whilst I was away from home, I needed to use WLMail to check a
future event (which I had entered in the calendar, before I left
the UK).

I had not appreciated that if I changed the time zone on my
computer, WLMail would display all of my existing entries as
local time. It transpired that WLMail had shifted the times of
all my UK appointments by 11 hours.

Consequently, WLMail had moved one of my appointments from 8:00
pm (GMT) on a Tuesday evening to 7:00 am (NSW DST) on the
Wednesday morning. By default, the WLMail calendar displays the
page view for the selected month. In page view, the WLMail
calendar indicated that the event would take place on the
Wednesday - instead of the Tuesday.

For the future, I intend to enter events using UTC timings, which
will overcome this problem. However, I would prefer that WLMail
leaves previous entries unchanged, when I travel through
different time zones.


"Colin Brown WLMVP" <Hackersoft1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, Bob.

An additional factor is that Microsoft's home office is in Redmond,
Washington, USA, which is US Pacific Standard Time, GMT -0800, or Pacific
Daylight Time, GMT -0700. So every Windows CD/DVD comes set to that time
and must be reset to the user's time zone during or after running Setup.

That also is why every post made via the web-based interface (to Microsoft
Communities) shows up here with the Redmond time stamp. When you post from
the UK or from Australia or I post from Texas, if we use the web interface,
our address will show as "dmc" <dmc@xxxxxx>, like the
original poster in this thread, and the time stamp will be like that post:
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:49:01 -0700. WLM converts that time stamp to the
recipient's zone, so it shows in MY Message List as having been Sent at
"4/23/2009 8:49 AM", which is Texas time. It will show a different "Sent"
time in your UK computer.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000

"Bob Lucas" <bob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi RCW

Of course! I had forgotten that in the gospel according to
Microsoft, Redmond is the center of the universe.



"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I had a similar conversation recently with two persons who contacted me through my Live blog,one from Belgium & the other from
Quebec, that travelled extensively with their laptops to 4 different continents and constantly had Time Zone issues with Live
Calendar, Groups, etc. There are at least 3 Live settings, that have Time Zone settings(one setting should manage them all).

Group Time Zone
- <Select Group or Access via Group Url>/ Options/ Group Options/ General

Calendar Time Zone
<calendar.live.com>/ Options/ More Options/ Time Zone

Live ID
<account.live.com>/ Registered Information/ Home Location/ Time Zone



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