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Outlook for Mac adds new time zone features in Insider Fast

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Zan Chu
Copper Contributor
Feb 14, 2018

Outlook for Mac is now more powerful for managing your time across different time zones. We're now shipping two of our most-requested calendar features: display second time zone on Calendar grid, and allow setting of start/end time zones in events.

 

These features are now available to Insider Fast starting from version 16.11(180214). Enabling second time zone in Calendar grid requires an Office 365 subscription.

 

You can new add a second time zone on the calendar grid so you can easily refer. To show the second time zone, go to Outlook > Preferences > Calendar, or by right-clicking the grid to see the second time zone options :

 

To schedule an event with a start time and end time being in different time zones (for example, a flight across time zones), simply toggle on the "Time Zone" option via Ribbon, or via menu Message > Time Zone:

 

 

We would love to hear from you, so please provide feedback and report bugs via Help > Contact Support. If you would like to see enhancements and additions to this feature, (or Outlook for Mac as a whole), please vote for the idea on our UserVoice site (Help > Suggest a Feature).

 

FAQs:

Q. I am on the latest version of Outlook for Mac 16.11 (180214), but I am not seeing the new features.

A: We are gradually rolling out the release of second time zone on Calendar grid, it will be fully released to all Insider Fast by 2/15. So stay tuned if you don't see the new feature for now. Also make sure you activated Outlook for Mac with an Office 365 subscription license.

 

 

 

Updated Feb 16, 2018
Version 10.0

14 Comments

  • Zan Chu's avatar
    Zan Chu
    Copper Contributor

    Hi Florencia, can you reach out to us through in-app support (Help menu > Contact Support) and we can investigate the issue you are reporting? Thanks!

     
  • Zan Chu's avatar
    Zan Chu
    Copper Contributor

    Hi Tommy, the issue of time shift of event on the week of DST is fixed in latest InsiderSlow and will be released to Production tomorrow (Mar 13). Please see InsiderSlow release notes for details:

    https://support.office.com/article/c152d1e2-96ff-4ce9-8c14-e74e13847a24

  • tommy birchett's avatar
    tommy birchett
    Copper Contributor

    Meanwhile as of this morning (Monday March 12) DST still displays incorrectly for the week of March 11 (this week) in the regular release of Microsoft Outlook for Mac -- fixed in the "Insider Fast" version only? 

     

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Fixes-or-workarounds-for-recent-issues-in-Outlook-for-Mac-54afa5e3-db38-422a-9d94-3b55330ded8e

  • I just got version 16.11 (180305) and I cannot disable the timezones from the Calendar entries.

    I mean, the timezones should only be visible by default when they differ from the default one, or if the user clicks on the button to see/set the Timezones.

    But when you open an already existing entry, scheduled in the default timezone, then it shouldn't be visible by default.

    And if it appears, but then I click in the button to not see it, I save the calendar entry, and when I enter again, I see it again.

    That should be enhanced, like in Outlook for Windows.