[Macpartners] Entourage 2004 sent time problem

[Kerem B Limon]

Quoting Nathan Faust <Nathan.Faust at TechnologyReview.com>:

> I am having an issue with the received time in Outlook 2003 by mail sent
> from Microsoft Entourage 2004.  The time displayed in Outlook is 1 hour
> ahead (i.e. the real time is 3:00pm, Outlook says 4:00pm).  This is
> annoying to the not Mac staff because they lose order of the emails.
>
> What I have and have done ::
> 5 computers - Dual 2.5 G5
> 3 of the computers are running with MacOS 10.3.9 and all security
> patches, minus Airport, iSight, and Superdrive firmware updates.
> The other 2 are running 10.3.8 or 10.3.9 with less than all the patches.
> All the Microsoft Office 2004 updates, version 11.1.1
> Entourage 2004, ver 11.1.0 (040913)
>
> This is the confusing part of the problem, 2 of the full patched
> computers are working fine.  Email that is sent from those 2 computers
> report the correct time, but the other 3 don't.  I thought it was an
> issue with not installing the Apple updates, but that didn't help.  I
> checked the time zone in the information in system preferences and
> Entourage preferences for all 5 computers, they match (EDT, Boston USA,
> or Eastern Time).  I have tried syncing the time from both Apple's time
> server and our Windows 2003 Domain Controller, no difference.
>

This is indeed strange, however, bear in mind Eastern Time != EDT. EDT is
Eastern Time zone, with Daylight Savings, whereas to computers who don't have
auto-daylight-savings management, Eastern Time may mean EST, or Eastern
Standard without daylight savings. That'd explain the difference, except not
why 2 are working. Is there a place you can check daylight-savings 
settings...?

> I'm stumped as to why Outlook is reporting the time incorrectly.
> I'm wondering if this a weird issue with Exchange 2003??
>
> Thank you for any help with troubleshooting and fixing this problem.
> Nathan Faust
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Kerem B. Limon
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