Some outlook appointments move by an hour

When syncing with Outlook, I have found that some meetings (not all meetings) will be wrongly recorded by an hour (or sometimes more). If I create the meeting myself in Outlook, or if other users in the same time zone create the meeting, it seems to sync correctly.

There appears to be a problem with recurring meetings created in other time zones. Outlook shows them correctly and can keep up with things if the meeting moves but the iphone will decide that the meeting should move by an hour and it will create an overlap with other meetings.

I've deleted the sync history to try and fix it but it doesn't help. Is anyone else having the problem?

Dell, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Oct 27, 2009 2:17 PM

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balancekiwi Author

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Feb 11, 2010 5:17 PM in response to Community User

Hey Stefan - they've really got to you haven't they.... I share your frustration both with the problem and the inability to swear at them properly in here!! I'm sure the problem will get fixed - they've probably scheduled it for release but due to a small bug in the calendar, the release has been delayed.

balancekiwi Author

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Feb 11, 2010 5:22 PM in response to Dogan

Well coop - I would try that if I knew how just for the perverse pleasure of discovering that sync isn't working properly.

It would seem that it's only meetings that change time. The original meeting entry is good and the time zone adjustment works. If the organiser moves the meeting it would seem that iphone ignores the time zone adjustment for the change.

Feb 12, 2010 6:06 AM in response to balancekiwi

@balancekiwi:

You wrote: "I'm sure the problem will get fixed - they've probably scheduled it for release but due to a small bug in the calendar, the release has been delayed."

Well, that is exactly what I was waiting for more than one year! In the meantime I stopped hoping.

Feb 16, 2010 5:36 AM in response to Community User

I stopped using my iPhone a long time ago. However today I plugged in the power cord to check the following things:

Today I have 2 recurring appointments in different timezones in my Outlook 2007:

1. All day event in a foreign time-zone (birthday reminder).
--> This appointment is not shown at all on the iPhone.

2. Appointment in foreign time zone that remembers me to call the person that has birthday. This appointment was created only, because the iPhone did not show the birthday (appointment 1.).
--> This appointment is shown on the iPhone one day later than it is shown in Outlook.

Conclusion: I will only use my iPhone to fix a wobbly table and never to manage my appointments.

However, it seems as if the iPhone only has problems with appointments, when they are: recurring AND in different time zones!

Feb 21, 2010 4:59 AM in response to Community User

Same problem today: A recurring appointment in a foreign timezone that took place yesterday (and can also be found in Outlook 2007 yesterday) appears on the iPhone today (one day too late).

I have tried anything (also to sync the iPhone with older Outlook versions), but there is no chance to circumvent this bug.

However, with any other phone (e.g. Blackberry or my old Nokia) all (!!) appointments are synced correctly with Outlook.

The iPhone is completely unreliable. What a crap!

It is so annoying, that Apple does not react, even though they know this bug for more than one year.

swv

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Feb 22, 2010 2:23 PM in response to Community User

iPhone 3GS synching Calendars with 27" iMac (Entourage thru iCal) all appointments, recurring or not, all in the same time zone, get moved 8 hours later on the iPhone and the later appointment is copied back to iCal (now two appts for same event 8 hours apart). Original appt in Entourage stays fine.

This happens even if i have hand entered all appts in all calendar apps prior to the synch. Also happens if i only enter appts in iPhone or in Entourage or in iCal.

Very frustrating. It has caused problems.

Feb 23, 2010 2:00 AM in response to swv

swv wrote "Original appt in Entourage stays fine".
-> Same thing with Outlook. Original appt also stays fine, but the one on the iPhone gets modified randomly.

I am using a Blackberry Curve now and - thanks god - this is a different league, when talking about business smartphone functions.

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