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Outlook Timezone Issues
I have 3 time zones displayed on my Outlook calendar (Eastern, Central and Pacific). Most weeks show the correct time differences ie: 12PM Eastern = 11AM Central = 9AM Pacific. When I am in the week view for March 12 - 18 2023 the time differences are incorrect, 12PM Eastern = 11AM Central = 8AM Pacific. So far, this is the only week I have found with as issue, but I am not confident that Outlook calendaring is working. I spoke with the support desk, but they were unable to resolve and instructed me to post this here. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
-Steve
5 Replies
- Two issues, one fixed.
My Eastern and Central Time Zones intermittently show the same hour. This remains unresolved.
When I recently added a third time zone, however, it appeared to mess things up even more. Pacific was showing as three hours behind Central, and Eastern was showing as one hour behind Central. I did find in this scenario my Label (free text) was different than my Time Zone (dropdown), so fixing those addressed the issue.
Even though this didn't resolve my original issue, maybe noting the labeling mismatch could help someone. I'm having the same issue, and no longer trust Microsoft's time zones in Outlook. I support a CEO that runs companies across 3 continents plus she travels to others, so it is so important that I can look at the calendar and have CORRECT time zones showing. I've been in similar role in the past, and never had this issue.
It's not just he issue between countries/continents. I am trying to track her travels between Sydney and Brisbane and Outlook shows the two as being the same time zone, but they would not be until the end of DST which doesn't happen in Sydney until April 2.
Same issue here. Hopefully someone has submitted this as a bug.
I have a few users seeing the same issue for next week in their Outlook calendars.
I'm hoping the problem goes away after the time change on Sunday,
but it would be nice if Microsoft found the cause!It looks like this has happened in previous years as well:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/time-zone-glitch-changing-timers-on-my-calendar/5ea7da20-bda2-4d57-afaf-a62c2bd2fb59https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/outlook-calendar-showing-wrong-time-zones-on/27d20c07-baa2-4dc0-8502-8afdda5d7ed2#:~:text=Outlook%20calendar%20showing%20wrong%20time%20zones%20on%20Calendar,works%2C%20you%20can%20change%20back%20the%20older%20profile.
- tylerdobie
Thank you for your response. It is such a strange issue, I am glad it is not just on my system. For this upcoming week with the incorrect time zones, I am going to be extra careful with any meeting invites I send, just to be on the safe side.
