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Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota

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Parts of Canada stopped observing seasonal clock changes on November 1, leaving affected areas of British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba on fixed offsets. Microsoft has confirmed problems across several products, including Outlook calendars that must be manually updated, recurring meetings that need recreating, and Power Automate and Fabric workarounds that temporarily use other time zones such as Saskatchewan, Arizona, or Bogota. Fixes for SharePoint On-Prem and Power Pages are due on November 10 and December 12 respectively, and admins have criticized the late guidance.

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