Calendar alert for all day events goes off at midnight

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Calendar alert for all day events goes off at midnight

When I set an alert for the day of, 1 day previous, etc., for an all day event the alert sounds at midnight... I have not been able to find anyway to change this time! Midnight is an odd default time as most people I know would rather not be woken for these! Does anyone know how to change the alert time? (for time constrained events the alert keys off of the event time, which is fine)

macBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10), iPhone

Posted on Aug 28, 2007 10:07 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 28, 2007 11:49 AM in response to Hal Snyder

Not sure what calender you are using to build your reminders but using outlook as my basis. 1) The calender day starts at midnight or 0000 hours. If you have a tone reminder set for an all day event, then it will sound at the start of the day 0000 hours. Another example is if i uncheck the all day event, then it allows me to enter the times and I can say from 0800 hours (8:00am)-1700 hours (5:00pm)=the event, then the alarm will sound at 0800 hours.

Recommendation is that you unselect the verbal alarm for an all day event, it will then pop on the screen but not sound off, this is a function in outlook, do not know if that is available in enourage or iCal, I am sure it is though. Or if you need the verbal then you will have to uncheck the all day event and select times for the alarm to sound. Sorry to say, but the "calender" day starts at midnight.

Hope that helps,

Good Luck!

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Hal Snyder Author

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Aug 28, 2007 2:32 PM in response to SFC @rcher

I should have mentioned that I am using iCal... If I wanted to put a time range in for these I would have done so, but they are events like birthdays that I need reminders for. Never before have I had a device I couldn't set a particular time for a reminder of that nature... Ah well perhaps it will get fixed in a future update. I agree that calendar days do start at 0000, but that is a particularly back default time for an alert! LOL I will check in iCal when I next get to my Mac to see if there is an option in that program, presently I only have the iphone with me... Thanks for responding

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Answer 3

Aug 28, 2007 2:51 PM in response to Hal Snyder

I was quite unhappy one evening at midnight when I discovered this (woken from a deep sleep, and not with the harp, which is my normal alarm for waking up).
I went and reset everything to hourly events around 11 am.

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Hal Snyder Author

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Aug 31, 2007 2:00 PM in response to jeniferkey

Thats pretty much what I have done... I discovered that although you can set the alert for a specific time in iCal it does not sync that to the iPhone... Sigh, so far this is the most annoying glitch I have with this device. Someone was not thinking...

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Rhyd

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Aug 31, 2007 3:25 PM in response to Hal Snyder

In iCal, you can set what time the day begins. Set it for a reasonable morning time when you typically begin your own day.

Go to iCal on your computer, to preferences >set to day begins at 700 or whatever. What you are setting is the amount of day that iCal will show but it will also give you the beginning of the day alarm. Computers can be funny in needing to be told that an alarm needs an actual time. You are telling the computer what time your day begins.

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Answer 6

Aug 31, 2007 3:37 PM in response to Hal Snyder

In iCal, there is a section in the Info panel (View > Show Info) to set the details of the Alarm for each "all day" occasion. You can assign how you want to be notified (message, message with sound, email, run script, etc.), when (# of days before), and the time (default is 12:00 AM). I manually changed all my recurring events to 12:00 PM and the iPhone now notifies me at noon 1-5 days before each event (depending on whether I want to send snail or email). Not a global fix, but it works fine once you've changed the settings.

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