Meeting alarm bug

[Bob Greschke]

When I set up a meeting with an alarm in the regular Datebook application to go off at noon with a 5 minute lead time, quit the Datebook application and check the OS's alarm queue with a program called "Alarms?", everything is fine. But if I then start up AN (5.0), quit, and recheck the alarm queue the alarm has changed from a Datebook alarm to an AN alarm, which is OK, but the time of the alarm has changed from 11:55:00 to 11:53:45, which is not OK. If I set up the meeting in AN and check the alarm time with Alarms? it is set to the 11:53:45 (wrong) time. The alarm times are always 6 mins, 15 secs off, instead of only 5 mins. Also, if I set several meeting alarms only 1 or 2 will show up in the alarm queue. I'm running a HE330 with their latest OS version 3.5.3a29.

[james]

Hi,

This is actually not a bug. When you run ActionNames it purposely clears any native datebook alarms and schedules it's own. It schedules them slightly farther in advance to give ActionNames an opportunity to sublaunch and cancel any other alarms that may have been created since the last time ActionNames was launched (ie added during hotsync, via native datebook application, via other 3rd party datebook application). The means that ActionNames alarms sound slightly early but has the advantages of not sounding double alarms and allowing ActionNames alarm dialog to appear which has additional options.

[Bob Greschke]

Who wants to get to a meeting EARLY!? :)
OK. I'll let ya slide on that (obviously dubious) explanation. :)

What started me looking at the queue was when a meeting alarm failed to go off last week after I did the upgrade from v4.6. And now this morning my Big Clock alarm either failed to go off, or went off silently. Since the only alarm-related thing I've updated lately has been AN I'm naturally blaming it. :) I'll keep looking to see if I can figure anything out.

Thanks!

[Bob Rieder]

I've had a similar issue with early alarms. I'd rather have double alarms than an early alarm. (At least, I think I would. Ask me again next week.) Any way to get one or more alarms to go off when I want them, instead of one early?

Set a shorter default alarm time?

Thanks.

BR