Monrovia, Casablanca Time Zone

Yeh! I have the same problem. Invitations appear with the time zone "Monrovia/Casablanca"
Anybody have any idea how to fix this? I figure it's a bug in Entourage (a bug in MS products...? Na!)

I think it's related to the fact that Monrovia/Casablanca is the timezone name for GMT, so it's the equivalent of seeing the event in the GMT timezone. But it still seems to be a bug.

Put me down for this problem. It's really annoying to have to go into Entourage and manually set the time zone to EST. That seems to fix it. It's only with all day events. If I create a regular event, it's carried into Entourage properly, and then subsequently to my Exchange and Blackberry

Jeff - I'm not using iSync at all. Further, I sent an invitation to myself, and it worked fine.
I'm thinking it might be invitations just from selected individuals - let me run some experiments.
Thanks much
Bob (who doesn't live in Africa anywhere)

My Issue maybe slightly different, but with the same symptoms. First, here is my setup.

I have my Macbook Pro with Entourage and iCal synced inside of Entourage.
My Entourage is setup to use Exchange Server 2007.
I have a WindowsXP machine with Outlook 2007 setup for Exchange 2007.
I also use .Mac sync with my Macbook Pro and my Mac Pro at home.
My Blackberry is synced with BES to the Exchange 2007.

So, If I create a single timed appointment anywhere in the system, i.e. iCal, Outlook 2007, Entourage, it shows up properly everywhere. Proper time zone (I am EST as is the server) and everything. If I create an All day event in Entourage or Outlook, it is created in the EST time zone, and it syncs everywhere. If I create an all day event in iCal, it gets synced to Entourage in the Casablanca, Monrovia time zone, but it looks like it only spans a single day in Entourage, and on my Outlook/Exchange/Blackberry it spans 2 days. If I go into Entourage, I can change it to be EST time zone, and that seems to fix everywhere. If I go into Outlook, it's an all day event in EST that spans from 8 to 8, so it's not easy to fix it in Outlook, short of deleting and starting over.

I prefer to use iCal, as I manage my personal and my professional calendar, and I like to keep them separate, it's a little bit of a run around, but if I only use Entourage and Outlook to setup my work calendar, then it should sync down to iCal just fine, and also be on my Mac Pro at home.

I don't think anything is going to happen on Microsoft's end to address this issue, as it appears to be entirely Entourage. The sync function is setup within Entourage. I'm just going to have to hope that they have better sync support and better Exchange support when Office for Mac 2008 comes out.

Justin

Interestingly, the only reason I turned this on was to get ready to use an iPhone. I wanted to automatically sync my iCal and Exchange, and this seems to be the only way, via Entourage. I think iCal work is better spent getting sync right with Exchange, and then Exchange Server is the only point of reference. I think this will solve a lot of issues for most all users. Having Entourage 2004 be the gatekeeper is the first mistake.

Justin

I'm having the same problem trying to sync iPhone to iCal to Entourage to Outlook via Exchange server on my work PC. Tried turning off time zone support on the iPhone and in iCal preferences. No change.

syncing in series is a terrible compromise. I feel your pain. First, the iPhone should sync to exchange, but with that limitation, iCal should sync to exchange. The idea that your iPhone syncs to iCal bidirectionally, and then iCal syncs to Entourage bidirectionally, and then Entourage syncs to Exchange bidirectionally... phew, that is insane. No possible way for there to be any kind of error what-so-ever.

Let's face it, the hub is either going to be .Mac, or Exchange server, so let's get EVERYTHING Talking directly to the hub, and properly!

Ugh, the horrible Casablanca time zone problem. This has been rearing it's ugly head periodically since I switched from PC/outlook/exchange to Mac/entourage/exchange about a year ago. For me it seems to only happen with all day events. This seems to come about in either the entourage/ical sync or the entourage/exchange sync. The events then show up in outlook/exchange as events that spread across two days.

I wrote a quick hack of Applescript to have Entourage change all the events that have Casablanca time back to Eastern time which helps a little - so I don't have to manually go through hundreds of all day events. But, even with that, I periodically have these events all switch back magically to Casablanca time and I have to run my "Casablanca Bomb" script again.

Very frustrating.

I can't wait to get Leopard and, as I have this sense of ignorant bliss that all will be well, when the reality as that this won't be fixed until Entourage 2008 (er, 09?) comes out. For the moment, I just disabled the back and forth from iCal to Entourage. I just don't have time to worry about it at this point.

I was a little disappointed to see in the list of features for Leopard that searching for Exchange yields zero results. I guess with their own iCal server, they think that everyone will dump Exchange.

We all have our own ignorant bliss...

Yes please share that script! I'm pretty useless at applescripting

Message was edited by: Spondilus

Just wondering if that script could be shared and how to use it? Mine keeps changing to Azores... frustrating