On 09/11/03 9:15 PM, "Julian Vrieslander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 09/11/03 8:27 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why do you call it a bug? > > Because I am only complaining about how Entourage deals with recurring > all-day events. Why should Entourage move Christmas to December 24, just > because I relocated to the west coast? Let me try to clarify this. There are clearly some cases where a recurring all-day event is tied to a specific start time in a particular time zone. I might create a reminder to watch the TV broadcast of the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, and I want to watch it every year. Here it makes sense for me to set the event to a fixed date and time in EST. The reminder will come up at the correct time, no matter what time zone I am in. Entourage apparently handles this situation correctly, although the UI implementation needs improvement. (The time zone popup should be next to the event date and time fields, and not hidden inside the options popup - which is not even visible when toolbars are suppressed.) I think the example above is unusual. In most cases when someone sets a recurring all-day event they want that event to bind to a specific calendar date, regardless of which time zone they are in. New Year's Day is January 1. Income tax day is April 15. My mother's birthday is November 25. The event banners for these events should appear on the correct days of the calendar, and there is no reason for Entourage to change the dates, depending on the location of the computer. I think this is a bug. Perhaps there is a way to enter recurring all-day events in Entourage so that the dates do not change when the user changes time zone. If so, I would like to know how to do it. Manually changing the time zone setting in every affected event is a very ugly workaround. One possibility that I have not tested is to use a recurrence pattern of the form "occurs day 25 of every 12 months effective 12/25/03". The pattern is entered by choosing the "Custom..." option in the "Occurs" popup, and then choosing a monthly recurrence interval. But I don't know if this workaround suffers the same shifting problem as events created with the more transparent pattern "Every December 25th". Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Palm Organizer (formerly Claris Organizer) provides a separate class of repeating events that are bound to calendar dates and not times. I forget what these events were called. -- Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/>
