Email & Calendaring

All MRU employees and students use Google for both mail and calendaring purposes. To access your Gmail account simply navigate to Gmail.com or click the MRU Gmail link on MyMRU and login using your MRU email address and password. If your personal Gmail account opens when navigating to Gmail for the first time please Sign out of your personal account before selecting the option to Sign in to your MRU account.  Use your username@mtroyal.ca and your MyMRU password to sign in.

Note: ITS recommends you use the Google Chrome web browser if available.

 

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Calendar meeting times and Alberta’s time change

Alberta’s move to year-round Daylight Saving Time is temporarily affecting how some future meeting times display in Google Calendar and other calendar applications.

You may notice a one-hour difference in the time shown for some meetings scheduled between November and March. This can affect both individual and recurring meetings, including meetings scheduled by people outside MRU.

Google has made some updates and you may notice an exclamation mark on some of your Google Calendar events. This indicator appears because calendar systems are adjusting to the time zone changes in Alberta.

What you need to know

For now, there are two simple steps you can take:

  • If you choose to update the event time manually: Google Calendar will preserve your changes and leave the appointment as updated.
  • If you do not update the event time manually: Google will automatically adjust the event for you.

You are free to adjust your appointments or allow the system to update them automatically based on your preference.

For more details, visit Google Support.

Why is this happening?

Calendar systems use time-zone information to determine how meeting times are displayed. Many are designed to automatically adjust meetings when Alberta moves between Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time.


With Alberta moving to year-round Daylight Saving Time, Google and other technology vendors need to update their systems so they no longer make the usual November adjustment. Those updates are not all happening at the same time, which means the same meeting can temporarily display differently depending on the calendar application and/or device being used.