Outlook 2003 meetings display 1 hour early, schedule correctly

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quietas
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Outlook 2003 meetings display 1 hour early, schedule correctly

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I have a single user (known to us at least) who is using Outlook 2003 with the 7.0.1 connector. The issue also occurs with the Outlook connector 6.0.10.
Essentially when we setup a meeting in Outlook at 8am for Bob and send it to a ZWC user John who sees 7am instead in the wording. The strange part is that the meeting will show 8pm in the calendar preview pane and then create the meeting for 8pm as well on John's calendar.
I attached a screenshot for easier reference.
Everything seems OK between ZWC users, is the Outlook connector not aware of Daylight Saving Time or have incorrect time zones? We're in Alaska (-9 gmt, DST used) if it makes a difference.
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Outlook 2003 meetings display 1 hour early, schedule correctly

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Could be a bug with a MAPI property, I suppose. Does it only happen with users in GMT -9?
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Outlook 2003 meetings display 1 hour early, schedule correctly

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I'm not sure really, I only have users in Alaska. My loaner laptop was out most of last week so I wasn't able to replicate the issue on another system yet. I'll see if I can duplicate the error on WinXP and Office 2003 this week, plus my own Win7 with Office 2010.
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Outlook 2003 meetings display 1 hour early, schedule correctly

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Hhhm, this seems to still be an issue in 7.1 with the newer as well as older ZCO software. Any ideas?
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I've narrowed this down to our users with Outlook 2003 and ZCO. This bug was around with ZCS 6, 7.0, and now 7.1.
Below I pasted the original info for two meetings. One made in Outlook 2003, the other in 2010. I think it might make a difference, but 2003 does not include the TZ lines for Time Zone information. The 2010 meetings work and display correctly, while the 2003 schedule correctly but will not display in the message body correctly.
Meeting created in Outlook 2003

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

PRODID:Zimbra-Calendar-Provider

VERSION:2.0

METHOD:PUBLISH

BEGIN:VEVENT

UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000406D85F9CC29CC010000000000000000100000005FA7F29E92A7714F90F0215095C871E2

SUMMARY:Test meeting

DESCRIPTION:


LOCATION:Here

ATTENDEE;CN=cu;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:user2@domain.com

PRIORITY:5

ORGANIZER:mailto:user1@domain.com

DTSTART:20110613T230000Z

DTEND:20110613T233000Z

STATUS:CONFIRMED

CLASS:PUBLIC

X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY

TRANSP:OPAQUE

LAST-MODIFIED:20110613T212242Z

DTSTAMP:20110613T212242Z

SEQUENCE:0

BEGIN:VALARM

ACTION:DISPLAY

TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT5M

DESCRIPTION:Reminder

END:VALARM

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR
Meeting created in Outlook 2010

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

PRODID:Zimbra-Calendar-Provider

VERSION:2.0

METHOD:PUBLISH

BEGIN:VTIMEZONE

TZID:America/Anchorage

BEGIN:STANDARD

DTSTART:19710101T020000

TZOFFSETTO:-0900

TZOFFSETFROM:-0800

RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU

TZNAME:AKST

END:STANDARD

BEGIN:DAYLIGHT

DTSTART:19710101T020000

TZOFFSETTO:-0800

TZOFFSETFROM:-0900

RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU

TZNAME:AKDT

END:DAYLIGHT

END:VTIMEZONE

BEGIN:VEVENT

UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000050A9EE87BB29CC010000000000000000100000003FF96DD71CB3114BAA3C5A0AA42D0B01

SUMMARY:test from outlook

LOCATION:not real, test only

ATTENDEE;CN=User One;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:user1@domain.com

ORGANIZER:mailto:user2@domain.com

DTSTART;TZID="America/Anchorage":20110613T150000

DTEND;TZID="America/Anchorage":20110613T153000

STATUS:CONFIRMED

CLASS:PUBLIC

X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY

TRANSP:OPAQUE

LAST-MODIFIED:20110613T191750Z

DTSTAMP:20110613T191750Z

SEQUENCE:0

BEGIN:VALARM

ACTION:DISPLAY

TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT15M

DESCRIPTION:

END:VALARM

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR
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