[missing-sync-palmos-talk] MS5.1 time zone support too aggressive?

[Alberto Garcia]

Further to my message on Saturday, it seems that even if I change a Calendar
event on the Treo (which has the Calendar time zone option unchecked) to
have "no time zone", if I make any change to the event in iCal (which also
has time zone support turned off) and then synchronize, the Treo's event has
it's time zone changed back to that of the computer's time zone (as set in
System Preferences). Yuk.

Is there any way to overcome this?

In our case it has disastrous results. We deal regularly in changing from
Australian to US time zones, and as such the events in the Treo are jumping
around all over the place on their Calendar (jumping accurately, mind you,
but it is confusing nonetheless).  Going through the trouble of manually
setting the Treo's events to no time zone is undone by a synchronization, so
it isn't the solution I thought it was.

Any help is desperately needed.  I want to have events that are locked to a
time and are unchanged by any time zone changes on the Treo or computer.

Thanks,
Alberto Garcia




> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:31:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alberto Garcia <clovercub at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [missing-sync-palmos-talk] "no time zone" and "Floating" time
>     zone    support
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> On upgrading from Missing Sync 4 to Missing Sync 5.1 the instructions stated
> that for the first sync with 5.1 the computer should overwrite the handheld
> data.
> 
> Upon doing so, all of the events from iCal v2.0.3 (Tiger 10.4.6) were set in
> the Palm Treo 650 (OS 5.4.8) to the time zone of the Mac in system
> preferences.  Previously, all these events in the Palm used "no time zone" in
> the event time details.  Time zone support in iCal was turned off.  Palm
> Calendar "New events use time zones" is unchecked.  "Enable Local Network
> Time" is unchecked.
> 
> Is there any way to change the event's time zone in the Palm Calendar to "no
> time zone" in a batch way as opposed to one by one?  This is the way my boss
> demands it all to be set since he changes time zones frequently.
> 
> Also, I have been testing the time zone support in iCal and MS.  However, the
> manner in which my boss wants to work would require using the "floating" time
> zone defined in iCal.  Is it possible for a future version of MS to sync
> calendar events set to "floating" on iCal to be recorded as "no time zone" in
> Palm?  
> 
> regards,
> Alberto Garcia
> 
> Palm Treo 650
> Palm OS 5.4.8
> Powerbook 12" G4 1.33
> Mac OS X 10.4.6
> Missing Sync 5.1.0 (131)