Windows 7 saves at least the last 27 entries in the Run command so once you use a command, it can be selected the next time you need to change the zone. Type or paste the following in the command field (using the desired time zone name) and press Enter.Press Windows Key + R to open the Run command,.You can right click on the scale and choose Time zones. Now when you view the calendar in a day planner format, you'll see two time scales displayed. To turn on dual time zone display, go to Tools, Options, Preferences tab, Calendar Options, Time Zone button and add a second time zone. I prefer to leave the computer time zone alone though and use a clock utility to display the time in a different zone, in part so all day events stay on one day. You can easily swap the system time between these two zones, if you need to.
Tip: Never change the computer time to match the 'local' time and leave the time zone set for your home time.
Use a 3rd party clock utility to display 'local' time so you don't have to change the time zone on the computer.Learn to use Outlook's dual time zone feature.
There are ways to make Outlook's use of UTC and time zone offsets time less frustrating with older versions of Outlook. In most cases, you'll want to disable the Windows tray clock when you use these, to avoid confusion. 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.Īt the end of this article, we have a short list of clock utilities that will display multiple time zones, many more are available at your favorite Windows shareware sites. 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: