1/1/2011 Calendar Weirdness

[haus]

I got a notification on my TP2 that property taxes were due today. WTF? Property taxes are due Nov. 1. So I looked on my desktop and my hosted exchange account OWA, which should all be in sync. Outlook and OWA do not show the same notification in the calendar for today.

I search outlook for "property tax" and come up with my recurring reminder, set back in 2006, that occurs "every November 1 effective 11/1/2006". Navigate to that date and sure enough on the desktop, there's the calendar entry.

I'm thinking the phone is seeing the "11/1" and thinking since it's "1/1/11" it misplaced the reminder on my today screen (I use the old 6.1 style today screen, not TF3D or Titanium). I navigate to Nov. 1 2010 on the TP2 and the entry is missing.

Wife suggested maybe I had snoozed it for 2 months, but that's not the case. On the phone it actually shows the item today in the calendar and shows it as a recurring event every January 1. Completely wrong and not in sync with my outlook or OWA calendars.

Weird!

[quick99si]

At least we're not getting text messages from 2017 this time around!

[eric12341]

Originally Posted by quick99si

At least we're not getting text messages from 2017 this time around!

LOL yea I was just about to say that. however at the new year I did notice that my TP2 randomly started roaming so I soft resetted to fix it after everything else didn't fix it,got back up and couldn't send or receive texts soft resetted again and all is well now.

[haus]

So rebooting did not help, nor did re-syncing from activesync with Exchange. I'll see if it fixes itself tomorrow and decide if it needs further troubleshooting then.

[haus]

So this morning the calendar entry was still wrong. So I went to the PC and edited the recurring event, changing it from a 1-day event starting at 12:00am to a 0 minute event starting at 8am. Then I synced using the cable. The appointment then showed up on the TP2 as a 1-day event starting at 12:00am November 1 (it is one step behind my PC, since that is how the appointment should have appeared before I changed it to 8am). I did edit the entire series on the PC.

Then I deleted the entire series on the PC, re-created it as a 0 minute event starting at 8am on November 1, and re-synced. Now the appointment shows up as 8am on the PC and 7am on the TP2, for the past (Nov. 2010) and future (Nov. 2011) events.

I might be missing a DST update on this phone as I've hard reset recently and I seem to recall there was a patch, so I suppose at least the appointment issue itself is fixed.

Edit: DST update from Microsoft fixed it after a re-sync.

[skidogger]

Where did you get the DST update? I'm in the same boat. Thanks.

[haus]

I used this one:

An August 2009 cumulative daylight saving time (DST) update is available for Windows Mobile-based devices

but there may be a more recent version:

Windows Mobile cumulative update for daylight saving time (DST) December 2009

[skidogger]

Thanks, but it didn't work. Yesterday, I had two appointments (birthdays) show up on my phone (1/1/11) that are 4/1 and 9/1 in Outlook. Something strange is going on. Some all day appointments are correct and some are off by a day. When I add a new appointment, it shows up an hour earlier on my phone. What's even more strange, is that I'm on my 5th replacement phone (imagio) and never had this problem.

[skidogger]

Here's my fix: Hard reset, turn off time syncronization (Settings->All Setting->Person->Phone, CDMA Servives tab, Time Sync, Get Settings, uncheck both, Update Now, close out), soft reset, change time zone to something different, change back, soft reset. Set up partnership and sync.