Microsoft Outlook Mail Time Zone Plugin

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:34:11 +0000

Time zones play an important role in email conversations. Not so when mailing a friend or colleague in the same region but when mailing someone who is living in another region of the world. Expecting a direct response from someone when it’s late at night their location is one of the problems that can occur.

It does not really matter if an online email service such as Gmail or a desktop email client such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook are used; Most, probably all, do not display information about the recipients timezone in the email client.

Sender’s Time Zone (via Technospot) for Microsoft Outlook changes that for Microsoft Outlook as it displays information about a sender’s time zone when replying to emails.

The plugin for Microsoft Outlook requires no configuration after the installation. It will automatically display the sender’s current time and the time zone difference in hours ahead or behind when replying to email messages in the email program.

Sender’s Time Zone is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003, Outlook XP (2002) and Outlook 2000.

Microsoft Time Zone

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:43:00 +0000

There is no build in way to display different time zones in Microsoft operating systems. The clock in the system tray will always display the time of the selected time zone. Users have to rely on third party programs or the Internet to view multiple time zones at once. One of the possibilities is a small Microsoft application that can be used to display the times of various time zones in the Windows system tray. The application will pull the information directly from the default time zone list of the Windows operating system which means that every time zone in the world is covered by it.

The user can select the time zones that he wants to display at the same time. By default five time zones are displayed: London, Los Angeles, New York, New Delhi and Sydney. The software program makes use of balloon tips to display the time zones which means that balloon tips have to be activated for the program to work properly. The easiest way to enable balloon tips again is by using Microsoft PowerToys.

It takes one click to display the configured timezones in the balloon tip. A left-click on the system tray icon will display the time zones. A right-click opens up a context menu with configuration options. This can be used to add and remove time zones from the display.

Microsoft Time Zone uses roughly four Megabytes which is acceptable for users who regularly have to check the times in various time zones.

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Microsoft Outlook Mail Time Zone Plugin

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