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larrycherrin

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Jul 14, 2008
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"me.com" appointment times are off by 3 hours on the site BUT correct in ical & on my Iphone, any ideas on how to fix this? Everything seems to be syncing correctly besides that. FYI..today is the first day that "push" email is actually working on my iPhone.
 

brn2ski00

macrumors 68020
Aug 16, 2007
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"me.com" appointment times are off by 3 hours on the site BUT correct in ical & on my Iphone, any ideas on how to fix this? Everything seems to be syncing correctly besides that. FYI..today is the first day that "push" email is actually working on my iPhone.

In the prefs there is a setting to select the time zone.... I had the same issue. Just dig around...
 

MM07

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Feb 10, 2008
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Do you have the correct time zone set in the account section, under personal info?
 

larrycherrin

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Original poster
Jul 14, 2008
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Thanks

correct - click the cog icon at the top of the screen, go to prefs, set your timezone.

Thanks. I had to go into calendar, then to preferences and changed it. Why it wouldn't all sync correctly from the get go boggles my mind..thanks all..
 

tallyho

macrumors 6502a
Aug 15, 2004
634
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UK
I also (eventually) found the timezone prefs in Account-->Preferences-->Personal Info and also in Calendar-->Preferences-->Personal Info

Has anyone discovered how to get the mail webapp to display dates as DD/MM/YYYY? I found an option for that in the Calendar webapp, but in mail I have all my emails listed as 07/11/08 etc, and that's just not how we do it in the UK - I automatically read that as 7th November :confused:
Also the messages do not seem to be sorted by date when I first open the mail webapp - I always have to click the date header to get them in chronological order. Is there an option for making that the default?
 

millerrh

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Sep 14, 2005
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My time is off too....so I changed the time zone, but the times stayed the same. Any way to make the time zone change bump your calendar entries? Or do I have to erase and sync again or something?
 

vandozza

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Jun 14, 2006
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Australia
did you change the time from within the ical page on me.com?
me.com-->ical page-->cog/preferences-->set time here.

this fixed the issue for me.

just suggesting this cause there are many different areas in which you can change the time zone. to fix the cal, i had to change this specific one.
 

brn2ski00

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Aug 16, 2007
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I also noticed that in your Account settings (the Person icon at the top), you can set your time zone. Mine was set to Cupertino (CA Time/Pacific) even after I updated the iCal settings for Time Zone Support.
 

millerrh

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Sep 14, 2005
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That's nice. I didn't realize there were TWO places you had to change your time zone.

Now after I have changed it to the appropriate time zone for both my Account Prefs and iCal prefs, the time is still off. It used to be 1 hour behind and now it's 1 hour ahead! This is driving me nuts.

Everything is set to Central time. My iPhone is set to know the time automatically (and time zone?). Why is it still an hour off? Any ideas?
 

brn2ski00

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Aug 16, 2007
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That's nice. I didn't realize there were TWO places you had to change your time zone.

Now after I have changed it to the appropriate time zone for both my Account Prefs and iCal prefs, the time is still off. It used to be 1 hour behind and now it's 1 hour ahead! This is driving me nuts.

Everything is set to Central time. My iPhone is set to know the time automatically (and time zone?). Why is it still an hour off? Any ideas?

It still doesn't work with the web-mail.
Mines been all screwed up since day one!

Not sure, that is the TWO places that I changed mine and all seems good. So far so good with Me.com...
 

KiwiLee

macrumors member
Jul 16, 2008
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Wellington, NZ
No sadly i def still got screwed up times in email, and i done both preferences several times...
Ironically MM Support seem to know its a problem, but what they say about its listed on service status is wrong? And they obviously dont talk to the HQ that says "everything is working"

Sort it out for crying out loud :apple:

Brandon here from the Apple MobileMe support team. I understand you are experiencing with the timezone and date format settings on your Mobile Me account. I understand how frustrating this can be, and i sincerely apologize for any service outages.

This is a result of a temporary issue stemming from the .Mac to MobileMe transition. Apple is working to identify the issue and expects to resolve it shortly. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The MobileMe System Status will be updated once this is resolved. For your convenience, the MobileMe System Status is always available on these pages:

http://www.me.com
http://www.apple.com/support/mobileme/ww

If you are still having difficulty with the timezone and date settings after System Status indicates the issue has been resolved, please reply to this message with a detailed description of the issue, the full text of any error message or alert you received, and a description of any troubleshooting steps you've taken.
 
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