Outlook 2007/2010 allows you to select the time zone the appointment will be held in.Ĭlick the Time Zone button to show the time zone selectors. Older versions don't have an option for 'in what time zone?' so that you could make an appointment for 2 PM and select Pacific time zone and it would show up as 5 PM in your calendar when the computer is using the Eastern time zone. Outlook does not support an absolute time option for the calendar, which would permit you to enter 2 PM and the appointment would always stay on 2 PM, no matter how many times you changed the time zone. This allows someone in another time zone to create a meeting request and it will reflect the correct local time. On a computer configured for the Eastern Time Zone, which has a -0400 offset during Daylight savings time.īy storing all times as UTC, Outlook doesn't need to store any other time information in the appointment and uses the local time zone when rendering the view. For example, any email client will display this sent time:
