Title: Users may see the time zone intermittently defaults to UTC when scheduling meetings in the new Microsoft Teams
User impact: Users may have seen the time zone intermittently default to UTC when scheduling meetings in the new Microsoft Teams.
More info: Users with access to the classic Microsoft Teams desktop client or the Microsoft Teams web app could use these connection methods to bypass the issue. Users could also manually select their time zone when scheduling meetings.
Final status: The fix has completed deploying to all affected environments and we’ve confirmed after monitoring telemetry that impact has been remediated.
Scope of impact: Users on the new Microsoft Teams desktop client may have intermittently seen the time zone default to UTC when scheduling meetings.
Start time: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 9:13 AM UTC
End time: Thursday, February 29, 2024, at 1:00 AM UTC
Root cause: A change meaning to address an unrelated issue introduced a code regression that was causing the new Microsoft Teams to intermittently default to UTC when scheduling meetings.
Next steps:
– We’re reviewing the impacting code change to determine what caused this issue to occur so we can avoid similar instances of impact in the future.
This is the final update for the event.
