Bluetooth transfer of calendar items

[greghead]

Not sure if this is the right forum, but...

I have:

• T43 with Bluetooth
  Outlook 2003
  Motorola RAZR phone

The BT services are much improved over my old T41p. Now I have a Send to Bluetooth item on Outlook's File menu. I can select an appointment item in the calendar, choose Send to Bluetooth, and it transfer the item to the datebook on the Motorola phone.

Cool!

Unfortunately the item ends up on the phone 5 hours later than it should be. It if was 6 PM in Outlook, it ends up at 11 PM on the phone. I'm Eastern time zone, so obviously it's putting it on the phone with GMT/UK time.

But I can't find any setting in Outlook or on the RAZR, to adjust this. (By the way, yeah I can tweak the appointment time on the phone after it transfers, but it's a nuisance -- and a double nusiance if pushed past midnight requiring a time and date change.)

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks!

[Shay]

You might want to try Motorola Phone Tools.

[bill bolton]

Motorola RAZR phone[/list]

I don't use a RAZR, however most recent mobiles from all manufacturers seem to have a time zone setting!

You will definitely need to keep the time zone setting on your phone aligned to the time zone setting on your Thinkpad operating system, or else you will experience the sort of time shift issues you are reporting when transfering time based information between the Thinkpad and the phone.

Cheers,

Bill

[christopher_wolf]

I have a RAZR although I haven't tried this with Outlook 2003; the timezones still have to agree for it to work from what I can remember. I tried something similar on a Treo 650 and I made sure that the time zones were synchronized with each other.

[davidspalding]

Wow. I'd been holding off on Office 2003 since I have Office Pro 2000 with Front Page, and numerous bells and whistles ... but now I have something to think about.

Currently, I simply send contacts to my phone by exporting to a .VCF vCard file, and sending it to my Nokia 3650. If you tell me that I can do that directly from Outlook, I'm going shopping....

[two minutes later]

OMFG ... Outlook 2000 has this "Send to Bluetooth >" on the File menu of Calendar. I'll have to try that at home on my T43.....

[greghead]

Thanks all for your suggestions. The phone gets the current time from the mobile phone network. So I believe it gets the current time zone, too. But I will double-check. Thanks.

P.S. I had used the Motorola mobile phone tools software on my previous ThinkPad. However (a) it's not free and (b) I found it flakey, with auto-software-updates that were frequent, and frequently broke a feature. That's why I was excited to discover this simple, free functionality built-in.