Location : Cleveland, OH
Hindsight, as they say is 20/20. This is a little tip that should have been posted last week, but I was tired of DST and DST-related issues. Yes, there are still some out there. Yes, I have found that for the most part, the issues are not Notes issues, but rather finding a Windows workstation that had not had the MS patch applied to it. And there are those far-flung Domino servers, outside of our direct control, that did not have the Room and Resource Reservation patch applied. Even though we specifically told those remote Admins that it was their responsibility to patch their RnR database. The good news? I can patch RnR in just a couple of minutes!
Enough of that, on with the Show-n-Tell.
Take a look at this screen shot. Notice the dual times in the Week view of the Calendar?
Check out the week in which it appears. Yes, the user believed that the time was wrong, as this only occurs during the extra weeks of DST. I confirmed that the MS DST patch had been applied and that the Lotus DST agent had been run against the mail file. Since those were discounted, what else could cause this?
If you guessed User Preferences, you would be correct. Specifically, User Preferences - International - Calendar:
The checkbox for "Display an additional time zone" is the culprit. The user had selected this as there was a need to keep track of the time for a different time zone. Lotus introduced this feature in R6. From the TechNote:
. . . you can display two different time zones, in any "gridded" calendar view (views that show individual time slots). This includes One Day, Two Day, and One Work Week Calendar formats. The dual time zones display lets you determine at a glance mutually convenient meeting times for remote locations. To display an alternate time zone:
1. Choose File - Preferences - User Preferences.
2. Click International and then click Calendar.
3. Select "Display an additional time zone."
4. Enter a label for the alternate time zone in the Time Zone Label field. (In our previous example, we selected GMT as the label for Greenwich Mean Time.)
For this user, it was a problem. Other users may find that this is cool tip to keep track of two time zones. Ahh, flexibility in Notes.
Link: Saving time with Notes 6 Calendar and Scheduling
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