I recently wrote in my Smartphone & PocketPC Magazine blog about a glitch I had encountered as a result of the Daylight Savings Time shift, Even Though I had applied the latest Pocket PC patch from Microsoft to keep from having problems. What I wrote in that post follows, and it is followed by a solution offered by a kind visitor to the site. I applied the solution (a separate tool from Microsoft) and it fixed the problem.
My original post follows:
“I have a recurring appointment to give heartworm pills to my dogs, set for every 4 weeks on Saturday at 3:30pm. But, despite the fact that my Outlook Calendar is showing the time correctly, and that my Pocket PC shows the time correctly for Future appointments (NOT for this upcoming Saturday), it is showing for this Saturday as being at 4:30pm instead of 3:30pm. This is what shows on my Today screen, and what shows when I view it in the actual calendar.
Interesting thing is that when I select this Saturday’s appointment to edit it, it shows up as being set for 3:30pm. What in the world is going on here? Note that it only seems to impact the nearest Recurring appointment, and has no impact on non-repeating events.
I have never had this happen before and it occurs to me that it is an oddity that is due to the DST (daylight savings time) patch from Microsoft. Yes, I did install their most recent patch on March 10 just to ensure that I had their latest DST patch.
Really odd. I also have a Palm TX that I have been playing with the past few weeks and it shows the appointment correctly for this Saturday (3:30pm). Of course I also applied Palm’s DST patch.
Anyone else having any oddities after applying the DST patch?
And the solution offered by the kind visitor:
Check this website. It explains whats going on and offers a fix. Haven’t tried it yet, though.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=e343a233-b9c8-4652-9dd8-ae0f1af62568&DisplayLang=en
Since the Microsoft tool download address is buried within the quotes, you can click here to access it. It apparently fixes some coding within Outlook.
Update: Another visitor the the SP&PPC Magazine blog noted that he has had some problems even after applying the latest patch and that reminded me that I had one also.
While I suppose that, in my capacity as a Smartphone & Pocket PC expert, some might expect that I should promote all things Microsoft, but I must say that I am disgusted that a company the size of Microsoft has trouble handling a problem that appears to be nothing more than a matter of elementary school mathematics.