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Interim guidance for British Columbia time zone changes 2026
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Hi Henry_Shi does this also mean that Places and its Room Finder features, etc will only be fixed after the time zone changes have already gone into effect? I guess we will have to continue to use Yukon/Saskatchewan time zones as fallbacks for our BC & AB staff then, as confusing as that is for everybody when the Mac/Windows side of things is successfully picking the correct time zone for their physical location, but Outlook Calendar and Work Hours needs to be set differently (which it then complains about!) in order to work…
- OzoVeiOct 22, 2026Brass Contributor
You can set everything (windows, mailbox, work hours, etc) to the new time zone definition. But then you need users to do the following workaround in order to add rooms to a meeting:
- Change the meeting's timezone to the old timezone
- Add the rooms
- Change the meeting's timezone back to the new timezone
You don't need to save/submit changes in between any of those steps, so you don't have to send out multiple meeting updates or anything like that. You can do it all while creating the meeting.
It's super annoying and confusing for users, but it does seem to work.