OL2000: Imported iCalendar or vCalendar Appointments Have the Wrong Time

When you open or import an appointment in Outlook that is saved in vCalender format (.vcs) or iCalendar format (.ics) using local time, the start and end times are different from the original time.

When you open or import an appointment that is saved in vCalender or iCalendar format using local time, it is treated as Greenwich mean time instead of the local time that you specified.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 2.