Hi all,
I have discussed/revealed here before that there is a slight glitch when using Versamail with Outlook and Exchange and the Exchange server is in a different time zone than the Outlook/Versamail machines. The glitch/feature/problem (depending on one's perspective) happens in the following narrow (but frequent) circumstances: One creates an appointment in Outlook, which appointment is subsequently sync'd with Exchange and then to Versamail in the fullness of time (usually less than 30 seconds). Since Outlook (even the 2007 version) does not assign time zone information to nonrecurring appointments, the Exchange server assigns one: the one the Exchange server is in. Fortunately, the correct absolute position in time is maintained. That is, if I set an appointment at 2pm in my MST Outlook, when it sends the appointment through my EST Exchange server and then subsequently to my MST Centro, the appointment still shows up in the 2pm slot. Unfortunately, Versamail has a "feature" which causes it to show the time the appointment is "really" in, in parentheses after the text of the appointment. No harm done, but it mightily clutters up the calendar screen. This problem only surfaces in the previously-described circumstances. Appointments created in any other way do not have this problem. My hypothetical 2pm appointment "Do the Laundry" (yes, I lead an exciting life), shows up on the Palm calendar as "Do the Laundry (4pm EST)" In my spare time I clean up the appointments that come from Outlook, shifting the time back 2 hours and changing the time zone to "Mountain" from "Eastern". So, to the point: What would it take to write a little program that would scan the Calendar database and, should it find an appointment in Time Zone X, shift that appointment to Time Zone Y, with the corresponding increment/decrement of the correct number of hours. That's the general case. Specifically, what I'd need is for it to shift all Eastern Time appointments to Mountain Time, and move them back 2 hours. Either that, or patch Versamail so it DOESN'T show the parenthetical "real" time zone information!! Thoughts? Cheers, Don [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
