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Samsung Calendar Time Zone handling

(Topic created on: 02-07-2022 01:01 PM)
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csewell
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I have a strange situation with the Samsung Calendar. I have it linked to my Outlook calendar and also my Work calendar, which is Exchange. Most calendar entries shown in the Samsung Calendar have correct begin and end times except for a few. For instance, an "all day" event in my linked Work calendar shows in the Samsung Calendar as starting at 7PM the day before and ending at 7PM on the day of the "all day" event. I assume this is because I am in timezone UTC -5?. Other similar entries from my Outlook Calendar show the same strange start and end times.  One multi-day event starts at 7PM the day before the actual start day and ends at 7PM on the last day instead of midnight. An even stranger one from a shared calendar shows an "all day" event starting at 3AM on the day of and ending at 3AM the next day instead of midnight to midnight. That shared calendar was created in the same time zone as me, UTC -5 as far as I can tell.

All of these calendar entries show up correctly in my Outlook Calendar but I prefer the calendar alerts in Samsung Calendar. Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas on how to solve it?
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Georgine
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Hi, can you please confirm if the Samsung calendar entries are showing up when it is not linked to the outlook?

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csewell
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Outlook calendar does not show up in Samsung Calendar when the only calendar I have is the one set up in Outlook. I have to add the Outlook calendar explicitly to Samsung by adding it as an Exchange calendar
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Galaxy S

In your Outlook event, Do you have Time Zones enabled for the all day event? (See the Event ribbon, there is a Time Zones icon). If you are not dealing with different time zones, you can just uncheck it. After uncheck the Time Zones from Outlook, sync your phone calendar and see if the time same as your Outlook?

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csewell
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Most of my events are set up in Outlook Web not the standalone Office 365 Outlook. I've opened up a couple in Office 375 Outlook and both multi day events show the time zone as UTC. But I can't change it. One other all day event that is off in the Samsung Calendar shows PST which I also can't change because it's a shared calendar. Very strange as all my Outlook programs show the correct start and end times.
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csewell
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Wow I managed to fix the wonky multi day and all day events by deleting them and recreating them in Outlook Web. How they were created with UTC timezone and PST timezone is a mystery. I guess Samsung Calendar isn't at fault for displaying them that way.
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Glad it got fixed. 👍🏼
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asm13
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Same problem. Was not using time zones. Suggestion did not fix.

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asm13
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Me, too, in April 2024.

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