The Entourage User's WebLog

There has been a lot of traffic in the newsgroups and mailing lists recently about bugs in the Timezone display in Entourage calendar events.

There does appear to be a relatively minor bug that appeared around the time of the swtich to DST (Daylight Saving Time). At first, a few reports suggested that it may have had to do with the delay that Australia slipped in at the last minute to prevent the change happening during the Commonwealth Games. However, subsequent reports impied the problem was more widespread than this.

The probelm manifests itself as a yellow banner across the top of an event in Entourage that states that the event is sheduled in a different time zone to your computer's time zone. It appears to be a conflict between 'PST' & 'PDT' timezones. The correction has occurred, and events are displayed in the right time slot, but the banner is displayed when it shouldn't be.



Yes, it's a bug in Entourage, but a fairly insignificant one. There is no effect on operation or performance of the programme, just this display oddity which looks a little disconcerting until you know why it happens.

I expect a fix for it will probably be in the next update, but until then there's no need to worry

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