[chandler-users] A Couple of Date Annoyances

[Mimi Yin]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Liz Cademy wrote:

> ... the alarm *is* date dependent.
>
> In the details, the start and end dates are both 8/13/2008. The  
> alarm is   Before event  2  days   But in the Dashboard, the date  
> shows as   Aug 11, 2008
>
> I have two other events with alarms several days before, and they  
> show the same behavior. I guess I found my first bug.

Yes it appears that you have. I've logged it here: https:// 
bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12246

>> I'm not sure I'm following. When I create a multi-day event and  
>> then set it to repeat every weekday, I get a multi-day event  
>> starting every day of the week. Is that what you are seeing as well?
>
> I think it was a confusion on my part between multi-day events and  
> repeating events. Given the number of decades I've been using time- 
> management software, I should have known better. [I remember  
> squealing with joy when my copy of Managing Your Money added a time  
> manager, back in the late 1980s.]
>
> Still, it would be nice if the Repeat Until box would say forever  
> until it had a date in it.

Yes, that would make things clearer.

> One final question ... are time-based events supposed to stay NOW  
> until you change them to DONE, or should they change automatically.  
> mine don't change.

That functionality is half-working right now. I believe the case  
where it doesn't work is unfortunately, recurring events. Is that  
what you're experiencing?

Thanks for helping us find that alarm date bug. I've had a suspicion  
that the event-dependent alarm dates weren't behaving properly but  
haven't seen it happen on my versions of Chandler.

Best,
Mimi

> --Liz