I've been reading, without paying much attention :-), comments about how E'rage handles time zones. Having just experienced it, I started to wonder if there's any "right" way to deal with changing time zones. I'm away from home, and decided to change the system time to my current time zone, but left E'rage on Pacific time. When I entered a local appointment, the time was adjusted by three hours. So that appointment was at the wrong time. But if I had happened to have any home time appointments (which I might) they'd have been correctly adjusted. Thus if I was supposed to have a conference call at 3:00 in the afternoon Pacific time, the E'rage calendar would tell me it was at 6:00 eastern time and I'd be right. If E'rage changed with the system, such appointments would be incorrectly changed. OTOH, if I made an appointment when at home with someone here and entered it without thinking about the time change, I'd end up with it at the wrong time here (I'm assuming I would have made the appointment based on east coast time and thus wouldn't want 'rage to adjust it to reflect the time zone change). But once one *knows* how the calendar is going to deal with time zones, it should be easy enough to get the results one wants. Just don't adjust either clock if you made appointments at home that you don't want adjusted. I guess that would have the disadvantage that if you sent out an email it would show the wrong sent time, but that doesn't seem to be a serious problem, at least to me. If you want appointment times adjusted to the new time zone, change the system and not 'rage. If you want old & new appointment times changed, change both. I think what I'm trying to say, not very articulately :-), is that the computer can't guess what we want to happen, and it isn't clear what's the "default" preferred behavior, so we need to be the "smart" ones and work with the way 'rage works.
-- Jan Martel in Davis, CA IBook 500; System 10.1.5, 9.2.2 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
