On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 04:11, Dave Barton wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 12:42, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
> > I have experienced some oddities with the calendar alarms myself,
> > although I can't say for sure if it's the same.  Often the same alarm
> > will pop up several times.  Recently I got back from a meeting, the
> > alarm (for that meeting) was there, I click ok, then went to sync with
> > my palm pilot and during the sync the alarm came up again.  Then the day
> > after that (today) the alarm came up again for no apparent reason.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 20:07, Dave Barton wrote:
> > > Evolution 1.2 - SuSE 8.0 - KDE 3.0
> > > 
> > > I have an ongoing problem with calendar reminders popping up at the
> > > wrong time. Let's say I create an all-day appointment with a reminder to
> > > be displayed a number of days before the start of appointment. The
> > > reminder may or may not be displayed as required, but if it does appear
> > > it will not show up until 11am and sometimes only if I switch to the
> > > calendar or summary.
> > > 
> > > Could it be related to my time zone (currently GMT/UTC +11)?
> > > I have set the correct time zone location in the calendar settings.
> > > Both my hardware and system clocks are set to local time.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone else experienced this problem ?
> > > 
> > > I have to use kalarm for reliable reminders, because evolution's
> > > reminders are (for me) totally useless :(
> > > 
> > > Dave
> 
> Although I don't use sync, I also get old alarms popping up
> unexpectedly. It seems like there is something a bit flaky about the way
> evolution handles timed events. 
> 
the alarm daemon records the time of the last notification, so that it
does notify alarms only once. Maybe it is not saving correctly that
notification time.

cheers
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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