Interim guidance for British Columbia time zone changes 2026

There are multiple bugs with changing timezone on calendar events in new/web outlook:

• Click on the combo box gives the hint text "Search for a city". Typing in "Vancouver", results in the old time zone being selected instead of the new one.
• In Web Outlook, "Search for a city" doesn't work at all - the combo box does not accept any typing input at all.
• The Combo Box is too small, so both the old and new time zones are cut off at "Pacific Time...". This makes it hard to tell if the correct one is selected. If you try to click in the box in order to select/scroll the text, then it just clears it and shows the "Search for a city" text instead.
• The sort order of the combo box options doesn't make sense. The new BC time zone is not grouped together with other UTC-7 time zones.

Overall, this is incredibly confusing for users and frustrating to use even if you know exactly what you are doing. The best workaround I've come up with so far is to have users paste the text "(UTC-07:00) Pacific Time (British Columbia)" into the combo box. Trying to use the broken UI to change dozens of meetings is just way too difficult.

Hopefully Microsoft can fix the "Search for a city" mapping Vancouver to the wrong time zone ASAP. Otherwise, anyone outside of BC trying to schedule meetings on BC time is almost certain to get it wrong.