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| Thread ID: 100371 | 2009-06-05 03:16:00 | Dumbest "helpful feature" of the Century - Thanks Microsoft! | TheOrganist (14976) | Press F1 |
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| 779809 | 2009-06-05 03:16:00 | This has to be the best contender! Microsoft Outlook "conveniently" changes all appointments by 1 hour whenever Daylight Savings starts or finishes! At least Google Calendar recognises that if I make an appointment (during winter time) for a dentist at 10am on 4 November, then I don't NEED it to automatically adjust it to 11am, because it is now one hour later due to daylight savings!!! Okay, seriously - I've gotten over this by not using Microsoft Outlook for my appointments and linking to my mobile calendar to Google Calendar... However I have so many people where I work who use the Outlook Calendar on Microsoft Exchange and get SERIOUSLY ANGRY when their appointments change. Syncing with Outlook with Google Calendar doesn't help - Microsoft has the wrong times and Google has the right times. "Daylight savings" tools from Microsoft don't seem to solve this issue either. Anyone know of a good solution for my angry colleagues? Martin |
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| 779810 | 2009-06-05 03:26:00 | Google calendar, with syncing to an iPod touch. Works perfectly, no complaints here. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 779811 | 2009-06-05 04:50:00 | Windows Calendar in Vista, plus a wall planner, works fine. :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 779812 | 2009-06-05 05:24:00 | The simple and sure fire solution is to buy a cheap plain calendar from your local bookshop and write your appointments on it. Then they will not change with daylight saving changes and you do not have to have the computer going to check them. | IanS (924) | ||
| 779813 | 2009-06-05 05:35:00 | The simple and sure fire solution is to buy a cheap plain calendar from your local bookshop and write your appointments on it. Then they will not change with daylight saving changes and you do not have to have the computer going to check them. Yup :thumbs:. Only downside is you can't sync paper, so you end up having to lug an annoying diary around. You also can't easily reschedule things on paper without it getting very messy, very fast. |
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| 779814 | 2009-06-05 05:35:00 | Google calendar, set to txt me when I need to be somewhere or do something | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 779815 | 2009-06-05 06:29:00 | I use Outlook 2007 to sync with my phone and upload it to Google Calendar so I can have txt message alerts sent before every appointment and none of them have ever had issues with daylight saving adjustments. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 779816 | 2009-06-05 09:57:00 | What about 'Clippy' the assistant that came with Office? My vote for most useless software is the help file that came with Access 2003. Abysmal! Got to go online for any useful content, or revert to the help from an earlier version. |
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