Lotus Notes generated meeting syncs "timeshifted"

T-Mobile Dash, and Dell AXIM X51v - both WM 5. Outlook 2000. Exchange
Server. New York area (EST)

I work with a number of external companies who use Lotus/IBM Notes.

When I receive meeting requests from the Notes users, they can be either
immediately "accept"able within Outlook OR come across as a .ICS
attachment - which when opened can be accepted into my calendar. They always
appear correctly in Outlook.

However, the fun starts when I sync up to my WM 5 devices. Some of the
meeting appointments sync over to my phone/PDA with a GMT time. So, if I
get a meeting request for an 11am CST meeting, when I sync it to my
phone/PDA it appears as a 5am meeting - which is not too much fun when the
reminders start going off.

Both my PC and my devices are correctly set for Eastern Time Zone, USA.

Anybody got any idea why this would be happening ? Why is it only happening
for some meeting requests ?

It is driving me nuts.

Thanks

As luck would have it, I actually received two attached meetings from the
same company since my original post. One for a single appointment, the other
for a recurring appointment.

Saving the .ICS attachments out to text files, the only difference was an
additional line in the recurring appointment in the VEVENT section ...

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
....
BEGIN:VEVENT
.....
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20071217T170000Z;BYDAY=FR
.....
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

This RRULE line is the only difference.

Both meetings showed up at the correct time in Outlook.

However, on my WM 5 devices, the meeting with the RRULE entry - the
recurring meeting - appeared as though they were scheduled at GMT (offset by
6 hours from where they should have been) whereas the one without it - the
single meeting - appeared at the correct time.

I deleted the RRULE entry from the first .ICS file, and placed it into the
second ICS file, emailed them both to myself as attachments, and the
expected happened. The previously incorrect meeting appeared at the correct
time - whereas, the previously correct meeting now appeared 6 hours too
early.

Anybody know enough about these .ICS files to understand what the issue is ?


As a final note/observation: If I drag the repeating meeting up or down half
and hour in outlook - it jumps 5.5 or 6.5 hours in the calendar in WM 5.
ie.. it moves to match the Outlook time exactly. Dragging it back to it's
original position also keeps them in sync. I do get a warning popup message
that I should let the originator know I am moving the meeting - so I am not
sure if they send an update whether it will link to the meeting correctly or
not. If anyone knows the answer to this, please let me know. This might be
a workaround for the moment.

Thanks.







"Vincent" <> wrote in message
news:...
> T-Mobile Dash, and Dell AXIM X51v - both WM 5. Outlook 2000. Exchange
> Server. New York area (EST)
>
> I work with a number of external companies who use Lotus/IBM Notes.
>
> When I receive meeting requests from the Notes users, they can be either
> immediately "accept"able within Outlook OR come across as a .ICS
> attachment - which when opened can be accepted into my calendar. They
> always appear correctly in Outlook.
>
> However, the fun starts when I sync up to my WM 5 devices. Some of the
> meeting appointments sync over to my phone/PDA with a GMT time. So, if I
> get a meeting request for an 11am CST meeting, when I sync it to my
> phone/PDA it appears as a 5am meeting - which is not too much fun when the
> reminders start going off.
>
> Both my PC and my devices are correctly set for Eastern Time Zone, USA.
>
> Anybody got any idea why this would be happening ? Why is it only
> happening for some meeting requests ?
>
> It is driving me nuts.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>