Sunday, July 30, 2006

Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?

David Shier posted an article on the infamous Outlook time zone bug! He indicated that a few people actually call this behavior a feature, but in his opinion, it's just a poorly thought out design that was clearly never intended for mobile computing.

David said:

This issue has been discussed since the first Windows CE based Handheld PCs. The problem itself traces back even earlier - as it is an inherent "feature" of Outlook - including the first version for the desktop.

There are a number of ways to deal with how Outlook deals with time zones and we'll discuss them here, but first, let's look and why Outlook behaves the way it does…

Read what David had to say on how he deals with this issue here.

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