Microsoft's Outlook Daylight Saving Time Tool works weird

[wienerdog]

This new Daylight Saving Time in the US is showing to be more problematic than the Y2K concerns from 7 years ago.

My office uses Microsoft Outlook and I downloaded the Time Zone Update tool "tzmove" to update appointments set in my calendar. When I ran the tool, It correctly adjusted the time for recurring appointments but pushed a meeting I scheduled an hour back and sent an email update to the attendees. Before I ran the update, the meeting was scheduled correctly but the recurring events I have appeared an hour later for the 3-week difference in Daylight Saving Time.

This thing couldn't be more user unfriendly. This is the reason people bitch about Microsoft.

[SpugNothuson]

Why was Daylight savings messed about in the US?

It's not changed over here in Blighty.

[PrintDriver]

For the same reason a lot of other things are messed up.
Somrbody had an idea.
:rolleyes:

[jimking]

Why was Daylight savings messed about in the US?

It's not changed over here in Blighty.
I heard it was to save energy cost.

[mac.FINN]

^ Yep. I think that was the official reason.
There was an article here that worked out the actual energy and cost savings of changing DST, apparently the savings were almost nothing.

[panzer]

i thought it was a bout the school kids etc

its all rubish tho aint it

[Kool]

I had to laugh at some of the articles I read which featured people enthusiastically planning what they would do with the "extra hour of daylight" LOL

Like somehow futzing around with our reference point somehow changes the laws of physics in the solar system.

[jimking]

What's funny to me is half the people I've talked to about this seem to think by July the sun will set at 10pm.:)

[Drawing a Blank]

I had to laugh at some of the articles I read which featured people enthusiastically planning what they would do with the "extra hour of daylight" LOL

Like somehow futzing around with our reference point somehow changes the laws of physics in the solar system.

Totally agree. It used to be light out when I left for work, now it's dark. It isn't an extra hour it's just in a different place. I'd rather have it in the morning for now. They said it was to save energy because people wouldn't have to turn their lights on as early at night. Now I have to turn them on in the morning instead. By the way they tried the same thing during the oil crisis in the 70's and it didn't work then. One big reason is that people who would normally have stayed at home at night will now go out and do things. Since they have to drive to do most of those activities the energy savings are lost on higher gasoline consumption. Just what we need, to give the oil companies a bigger percentage of our energy dollar.

[SpugNothuson]

lol the silly sods.

I sometimes wonder if people think about what they're saying. They obviously can't actually believe that altering DST will change the rotation of the earth on it's wobbly axis.

Think before you speak, great advice for many, many people.

[Drawing a Blank]

What's funny to me is half the people I've talked to about this seem to think by July the sun will set at 10pm.:)
What!! You mean the lower 48 isn't going to have 23 hours of daylight. These politicians can't do anything right.

[PrintDriver]

It's the rampant lemming syndrome. Someone gets a bright idea and justifies it just enough to convince a larger group of lemmings that it is a good idea. They feed on their own drivel long enough, they then believe it's time to foist their idea on everybody.

Oh, what? We've done this before and it didn't work? Gee, your research must be faulty....:rolleyes:

[Patrick Shannon]

I never even understood the point of standard time/daylight. It sucks when it goes to standard time, it's completely depressing leaving for work on a bright sunny day, staying in a building for eight hours, then leaving to find it's dark out and realizing you wasted a day indoors....rinse, repeat for four more days that week. I wouldn't mind if it stayed DST permanently.

I don't know if I agree it will drive gasoline consumption way up (whether it's light or dark I can still go out to the store/whatnot either way), but I agree doing it for power saving reasons is pretty negligable.

[Drawing a Blank]

I don't know if I agree it will drive gasoline consumption way up (whether it's light or dark I can still go out to the store/whatnot either way), but I agree doing it for power saving reasons is pretty negligable.

I had never really thought about it until I heard a story about it the other day. Apparently when they did this before they did a study and found that more people go out and drive places i.e. to play a round of golf, play organized sports etc. which they wouldn't have if it was still Standard Time. I can't vouch for the credability of the study I can only tell you what I heard on the news (as far as you can trust that)

[MD]

It's the rampant lemming syndrome. Someone gets a bright idea and justifies it just enough to convince a larger group of lemmings that it is a good idea. They feed on their own drivel long enough, they then believe it's time to foist their idea on everybody.

From the Law offices of the Vatican

Mr. PrintDriver
It has come to the attention of the pope that some of your posts on the website www.graphicdesignforum.com infringe on patents long held by the Vatican. This is an official cease and desist letter. You are divulging our trade secrets - if you do not remove the offending post we will be forced to take legal action against you.

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[SpugNothuson]

Jesus just got that little bit cooler in my book. :D

I don't fully understand why we still have Daylight Savings Time. Not really a functional thing anymore is it?

I thought it was originally brought in back in days of yore when we had to walk across the hills and fields to get to the cotton factory. They'd slab big spires into the ground on hills so that the workers knew which direction to walk in and then they'd bugger about with the clock so that when they left to walk to work they could see said spire.

Not really a problem these days with tarmac and headlights.

[Riya]

It's just busy work. The bureacracy has gotten so large that it has to make up things for it to do. And it has the added benefit of keeping the general populace confused so they are too busy trying to sort this "extra hour of daylight" thing out in thier heads so they are too busy to think such dangerous thoughts as "the government is spending too much money."

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What really funny though is listening to people talk about how much the extra hour of daylight is benefitting thier plants.

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MD: that is the coolest picture of Jesus ever.

[PrintDriver]

OMG, MD, that's too funny!

Riya, the plant thing is too. Plants don't care what time it is!

Cripes!

[Samakimoto Graphics]

Over here it's still pitch dark at 6am and it's still very light at 7pm, should I then stay in bed longer or what?

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I don't get this Day Light Saving thing...it's interesting though.

[SpugNothuson]

Plants don't care what time it is!

Don't you let the Steves hear you say that or Stig will come get you. You don't want that!