Help defining what hour the day begins. Q reminders beep in the middle of the night!

[tazar]

Is there anyway to set the start hour and end hour of the day? If I have an all day event, the calendar reminder starts beeping at midnight...

Thanks

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by tazar

Is there anyway to set the start hour and end hour of the day? If I have an all day event, the calendar reminder starts beeping at midnight...

That's what "all-day" means.

Seriously, you can set the reminder to go off an hour earlier (hopefully before you go to bed).

Of course, because Windows Mobile 5 doesn't allow snoozing for any period between one hour and one day, you'll either have to snooze for an hour (possibly every hour until you wake up) or one day, in which case you'll have missed the event.

Or you can just turn reminders off for all-day events.

If you don't mind spending money, you can get a PIM replacement that allows more flexible reminder setting. For example, I use Agenda One, and that allows me to set reminders between 0-60 (or maybe 0-98) minutes, hours, days or weeks before the appointment.

That would allow you to set a reminder 16 hours before the appointment (so it went off at 8 AM the day before). If you snooze it for one day, it will go off at 8 AM the day of the event.

There's also a possible kluge based on a "bug" in Outlook calendaring. You can change the time zone to one where you really want the alarm to go off at, create your all-day event, then reset the time zone to your home one. The all-day event will be treated as all-day in that time zone, but spanning two days in yours. (I haven't actually tried that, but I think that's how it works. It would obviously require some time zone math and may not give you the flexibility you need being limited to 24 hours range.)

For example, if you're in the Eastern time zone (GMT-5 ), you could switch to GMT-12, set your event, then switch back to GMT-5. The alarm would go off at midnight GMT-12 time, which would be 7 AM Eastern time (assuming that I did the math correctly ).

Steve

[tazar]

Thanks! I'll try that.

Prior to my Q, I was a Palm Pilot user and with the Palm, you were able to set, for example, 7:00AM as start hour for week days. Therefore, any alarm or reminder would not go off prior to that...

Cheers!

[dipgolf]

If you use the Outlook calendar on your PC, there are many more time reminder options listed there than on your Q.

[Coacheck]

So can someone tell me how to turn off reminders for my all day events. For example I still want to put all day events into my Q but I don't need reminders for those. I would like to keep reminders for my other events.

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Coacheck

So can someone tell me how to turn off reminders for my all day events. For example I still want to put all day events into my Q but I don't need reminders for those. I would like to keep reminders for my other events.

There are basically three ways to get all-day events on your Q.

1. Create one in Calendar.
2. Sync one over from Outlook or another program.
3. Have one created automatically by adding a birthday or anniversary to a contact.

In the first case, just turn the reminder off when creating the event.

In the second case, turn the reminder off in Outlook or after syncing.

In the third case, it's a bit more complicated. I'm not exactly sure when the all-day event gets added to your Calendar. I just created a contact with a birthday and the all-day event didn't show up on the Q (even after I powered the Q off and back on). I then connected with ActiveSync and the Calendar got an all-day event, so it seems like the event gets created in Outlook.

I also created another contact with an anniversary and waited until after midnight to see if the event got created during the midnight update, but it didn't.

I guess the best advice that I can give is to look at your annual events and turn reminders off for them.

Steve