Despite my having set my system to be in a non-DST timezone, Outlook felt the need to shift all of my calendar items over one hour, apparently expecting the system clock to get shifted too. What a major nuisance...

My calendar is managed by Notepad.

Mine is managed by a mechanical pencil.

That sounds strange. I thought it'd store them in GMT, and then it wouldn't matter if you used DST or not, no need to ever shift anything...

Well, there is technically a shift every time he reads them out of his calender and has to convert them to his local time :P

And we don't have the convenience of living within a couple hours of GMT, ~9 hours is a lot to use sometimes.

I do not use a calendar...I just hope I remember stuff. (I usually fail btw) :P

Outlook is stupid, at least to me, cuz... well, I want to keep my email. I can't count the number of times I've had to refer back to emails a year or more past.

That said, when I'm downloading email, the computer nearly stops responding as (apparently) Outlook continually has to resize its data store. All I can hear is my hard drive clattering nonstop, and occasionally my laptop fan turns on just from checking my email.

It's somewhat ridiculous.

I've never had any of those problems. Outlook keeps my email, and downloads emails just fine.

I don't have Outlook; and Outlook Express has been a security pain the past, so I use Thunderbird.