[Evolution] Hundreds of alarms

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 04:17, Dwight Tovey wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 11:19, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 
> > your problem is that there is no stored date for the last notification,
> > so the alarm daemon thinks the last notification was in 1/1/1970, so it
> > shows you all alarms since then :-(
> > 
> > It should probably just use the current time as the last notification
> > date if that setting is not set.
> > 
> Ok, that explains not only the many alarms that I got this morning, but
> also the long past-due alarms when I haven't logged in to this system
> (my laptop) for a few days.  In some circumstances I can understand
> wanting these past-due alarms, but frankly, in general they are mostly
> just a nuisance.
>
well, they are if you use the calendar just once in a while. But if you
use it daily, as I do, they are really useful, like reminding me of
events that happened when I was on holidays, for instance.

>   I still think that it would be better if it was
> possible for the user to decide to only have alarms as they happen and
> ignore anything overdue.
> 
not sure if that would be a good solution.

cheers