#Microsoft outlook time zone issues android#

Now a single Exchange Server can process messages for different organizations in a range of time zones but Microsoft hasn't added all the necessary features to cope. It seems Exchange Server relies on the time zone setting of the server with no ability for the organization/tenant to customize that. The consequences of change to multi-tenant use hasn’t been fully handled by Microsoft. under the presumption that each server handled a single organization. This is a change from the way Exchange Server was originally designed and developed for many years i.e. Office 365 runs Exchange Server in what Microsoft calls a ‘multi-tenanted’ environment meaning the one server handles email for many separate organizations. The problem is in the design of Exchange Server. There is false hope given with a time zone change to Outlook Web Apps but that doesn’t fix the email tracking bug. To paying customers it’s a bug and worse, a bug with no fix. Naturally Microsoft staff will tell you there’s no problem.

Monrovia is the capital of Liberia on the west coast of Africa (not the one in California).ĭepending on who you ask, this is either a bug or Office 365 acting ‘as expected’. Reykjavik is a nice place (great soft serve ice-cream) but it’s nowhere near where the sender or recipient are located. Was read on Monday, Febru9:07:50 PM (UTC) Monrovia, Reykjavik.īoth places have the same time zone settings and are top of the time zone list in Windows, which is why it shows up as the default. Sent: Monday, Febru9:08:27 PM (UTC) Monrovia, Reykjavik When an Office 365 user asks for a read receipt, the receipt comes back with a time zone of ‘UTC Monrovia / Reykjavik’ not the readers local time nor the Office 365 users time nor even something like the time zone for the Office 365 servers location.įor example here’s an Office 365 users read receipt from a recipient in Australia: Your message Giving the timezone might mean that you'll have to shift your existing events en masse.There’s an ongoing complaint about Office 365’s response to email read receipts and other email tracking. You should fix the timezones used in the events and fix the settings of the program that created the incorrect events. That is indicative that your events are created in the wrong time zone. If I create the appointment on the phone, I can set the appointment to be GMT-7 (AZ) which then will display correctly across all devices Now all the Outlook appointments have shifted one hour.

The format conversions during calendar synchronization are implemented correctly.

You created the events with the correct time zone.

The phone's system timezone is set up to the correct local time zone and has an up to date timezone database.

The computer's system timezone is set up to the correct local time zone and has an up to date timezone database.

You don't want that.įor calendar calculations to work, you need to have these things set up correctly: Turning off daylight saving handling likely will just makes things worse.

#Microsoft outlook time zone issues android#

I have an Motorola Moto G with Android 4.4.4 (I tried the new Outlook App for Android, but it's still beta - really beta). Is there any way to have the calendar(s)/the phone stop using DST altogether? DST doesn't apply to any of the calendars I have on my phone and I don't see it applying anytime in the future either. If I create the appointment on the phone, I can set the appointment to be GMT-7 (AZ) which then will display correctly across all devices, however I don't always create on the phone.

So, it changes it to GMT-8 rather than leaving it at GMT-7. The problem is that the calendar app on the phone (and the new Google calendar app) just read the GMT-7 and then make the DST adjustment, but never factor in that we're AZ which get's no adjustment. When another computer gets it, it looks at their time zone information on the recipient computer and adjusts accordingly (oh, AZ computer that's GMT-7 and NO DST adjustment). In reading up on the issue it seems that Outlook relies on the computer's time setting to handle the time zone and creates its appointments with GMT +/- your time zone (so for AZ, it's GMT-7) rather than specifying the time zone explicitly (i.e. It has been working great until DST hit yesterday. I have an calendar that I sync between my phone, my desktop (Outlook 2007), (the cloud) and my wife's phone. I'm using the default calendar app that came with my phone. I live in Arizona where we don't participate in DST. Thanks to Daylight Savings Time (DST) I have run into an issue.