XFOR: Replication from Lotus Notes to Exchange Server Displays Inconsistent Times

• Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.5

SYMPTOMS

When you replicate items from Exchange Server to Lotus Notes and vice versa, the dates and times of items being replicated may appear incorrect. They may appear with a time difference that depends on their local time zone relative to the Greenwich mean time.

For example, the times are five hours apart if the server is located on the East Coast, but eight hours apart if the server is located in the Pacific time zone.

CAUSE

When you replicate from Exchange Server to Notes, the custom time and date properties undergo an erroneous Greenwich mean time translation. When you replicate from Notes to Exchange Server, Notes time and date stamps without specific date values (that is, editable Time field entry) do not go through a needed Greenwich mean time translation.

WORKAROUND

By using the @Created formula in the SubDate field instead of a computed time entry within your form, you can resolve the time discrepancy error when replicating data from Notes to Exchange Server.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : exc55 
Version           : winnt:5.5
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: June 28, 1999