[missing-sync-palmos-talk] 90-minute alarms become 1 hour on Palm

[Steve Skipworth]

My vote would be for 90 minutes on the Mac or less be converted to  
minutes on the Palm.  This would be a reasonable compromise based  
upon the Palm's limitations.

> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:39:51 -0500
> From: "Brian M. Criscuolo" <bcriscuolo at markspace.com>
> Subject: Re: 90-minute alarms become 1 hour on Palm
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> No way to fix it, unless we change how we're doing things. Because
> the alarm trigger comes out of the sync engine only as a number of
> seconds (unless you enter a specific date) we have to break it up
> into something that will be reasonable on the Palm.
>
> Currenly, if it is less than 3600 seconds (1 hour) we set the Palm
> unit to minutes. If > 1 hour and < 1 day we set it to be hours and >
> 1 day we set to days.
>
> We round down when calculating, so that the alarm doesn't appear
> after the event.
>
> I don't know what number of minutes would satisfy everyone in this
> case. Maybe 99 minutes? That's the maximum I can enter in the Palm
> field.
>
> I'll look at it a little more closely.
>
> b
>
> On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Jim C. wrote:
>
>> New issue that I just noticed... If I create an iCal event and set  
>> the
>> alarm for 90 minutes, the alarm shows up on the Palm as being 1 hour
>> prior to the event.  Any idea how to fix this?
>>
>> This is big issue for me, as I frequently have appointments that
>> are an
>> hour's drive away, so the hour-and-a-half warning is crucial.
>>
>> - Jim
>
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> Brian M. Criscuolo
> Senior Software Engineer
> Mark/Space, Inc.