How can I fix my calendar times? They are 1 hour early after daylight savings.

Question

After my iPhone automatically changed to daylight savings times, it also made my calendar events 1 hour ealier than they should be. After checking threads I have double checked time zone support is on and matches my timezone in date and time. I sync with Outlook 2010 and the times are still correct here and I have tried to replace information on the iPhone with informqation from outlook, but this hasn't worked. Solutions?

Answer 1

Outlook (ver 2003 in my case but am sure many other versions...) and iPhone calendars cannot and will not share events with any degree of integrity regards their schedulling when synchronised via iTunes - specifically: events (recurring or otherwise) that are created PRIOR to a Daylight Savings Time event (in the UK our 2 events this year are March 25th and October 28th).
When transferred to the iPhone calendar during the sync process these events appear to be "altered" on all the incidences they appear AFTER a DST event and are displayed as either an hour ahead or behind their equivalent events within the Outlook calendar that they are supposed to be mirroring. iOS is effectively allocating these daylight-saved events a unique Time Zone of their own - this should NOT be happening.
Real life examples:
Weekly timed event (0900hrs-1100hrs) was created on February 5th to run every week until further notice... This displays correctly in Outlook for ALL instances - e.g. 0900hrs-1100hrs and irrespective of how far ahead you check the calendar... on iPhone calendar it displays correctly UNTIL March 25th - thereafter it is showing as timed at 1000hrs-1200hrs.This is massively frustrating... Changing the iPhone Time Zone from what should be the proper local "London" zone (in my case) to UTC I found cured the problem for these "orphans" when the clocks went back an hour last October - but this was a false cure and unfortunately many people discussing similar "cures" within these forums have not taken the trouble to examine the iPhone calendar in more detail and look either back to prev DST event date or forwards to the next DST event date because if they did they would find that all the calendar entries covering those periods will have been shifted by an hour.
One-off timed events - with or without alarms... These too get pushed forward an hour (post March 25th) - I missed a dentist appointment the other week because of this particular issue. I had actually planned the appointment months ago and at that time input it in iPhone calendar at the correct time/date. Outlook and/or the iPhone (or both in combination) somehow "marked" this appointment as a GMT appointment. When clocks went forward - this GMT "attribute" was preserved and applied to it - effectively the appointment was modified (without any authorisation/involvement on my part) and rescheduled to appear an hour later. Outrageous! Recurring alarmed events suffer same problem - with the alarms sounding an hour later of course.
I have tried all the so-called "fixes" to be found within these discussion groups and others all around the web and NONE have actually worked. Unfortunately, as I stated earlier, I suspect a lot of the reported "fixes" were premature annoucements from people who may not have their Outlook sync parameters set over a long enough time period for them to be able to view events several months ahead or behind and therefore see what happens to them AFTER the clock-change dates.
I need to determine which application is screwing this all up - is it Outlook or is it iOS? The fact of the matter is - I was able to use a Windows Mobile device that synced with Outlook 2003 for several years WITHOUT this issue. All that happened when DST event came along was the clock either went forwards or backwards - the events themselves were not interferred with and remained showing at the times they were originally set for - what could be simpler??
If I were planning to use the iPhone calendar on its own - without wanting to syncronise it with Outlook - I would not be here writing this post - but I purchased this device on the basis that Apple said it would be compatible with Outlook - it was a long thought-out decision as I was moving away from a Windows Mobile environment and ability to sync with Outlook was the only feature I needed to work.
The Outlook calendar sync feature is broken and has been for at least 3/4 years judging by the many reports to be found on the web. This needs fixing - NOW.