Why is ical creating unwanted alerts for all-day events?

If anyone can point to what might be going wrong here I'd be grateful. This is becoming a daily irritant. I have a number of all-day events listed for most week days in my diary which help me to know what is happening that day with childcare for my son. I don't need alerts to be reminded of these - they are just notes I put to myself in adavnce that let me know how my day is configured. Now, I sync my ical from my home imac to my work imac, my macbook, my iphone and my ipad. On none of these devices do I have default alerts set. I never set any alerts for any of these 'events'. But then, at 9am the day before each one I get an alert. In fact, I get a 9am alert for any all-day event, regardless of whether I set an alert for then, or at all. As I say, I've checked all devices and the default alert a=on all is set to 'none'. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I stop it?

Thanks Malcolm.I'm afraid this issue started for me after updating to iOS6!

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Am I missing something??? Is there anyway to set an alert to go off on the date of an all day event but not at midnight the night before? It would be so much better if the user could choose what time the alert should go off, like 9am for instance. Who wants an alert at midnight!

Isnt there any other way than doing it manually? I have a lot of birthdays and anne. saved on the contacts info on my outlook with the alert set to go off at 8 AM but as the previous person said....all alerts tend to go off at 12 midnight which is quite irritating.

Why is ical adding multiple alerts to my recurring events?

I have searched for this issue in the support topics but can only find very old threads with links to apps that do not work. My recurring events in ical are all of a sudden getting many many alerts added to them. Every once in while I try deleting the event and creating a new one, or deleting the extra alerts for all future events and YET THEY KEEP COMING BACK. It's super annoying when I am getting 10 reminders for one event and have to clear each one of them. PLEASE HELP!

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Well, I couldn't figure this one out, so I just moved the calendars back to my main machine, and published them to the web for sharing with my laptop. On my main machine they worked fine.
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When I schedule an all day event in my calendar, the alert fields show 'None.' I also have the default alert in Preferences set to 'None' for all-day events. After I finish scheduling the event and re-open it, the alerts fields are populated! There is an alert set to 1 day before and a second email alert set to 1 day before. I set them back to 'None', close and close the event. When I re-open it, the alerts are back! Maddening! Any suggestions?
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At the top of my Day- or Week-view calendars, in the small space available for All-Day events, there's always a space 1 row long even if there is no event planned. If at least one day has an all-day event, then the entire week has what looks like 2 slots, the event being on one and then room for another, but if you add a second all day event... you get my point.
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There wouldn't by chance be some sort of official hack to change this state of affairs?
I use iCal on an iBook, and my screen real estate is limited. If I could get rid of this additional row in the all-day events section, I would have more space to display my other events.
I would even be prepared to go back to iCal 1.5 just to get more screen space - but unfortunately its not supported to run in Mac OS 10.4 (is there any way to hack iCal 1.5 to run on 10.4? You see, I'm seriously annoyed by this little UI change. Have even toyed with the thought of trying Entourage...)
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I have a simple question but I have not been able to find the answer anywhere including by searching this forum. On my iphone, the reminder for my all-day events pop up at 6:00 AM. I usually try to sleep until a little later and get annoyed every day whe these reminders wake me up. Can anyone tell me how to change the reminder time for all day events?

One thing that might help.
Find the event on the iphone.
Tap on the event, then tap edit.
Here you can edit the Alert for that event.
If it is a repeating event, it can be set to this event only or to all future events.
However, an alert always comes up before the event is supposed to start.
Hope this helps.

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I need these all-day events alarms to be at another time, why can't I do this? Why the arbitrary 9am? Please, don't suggest to not use all-day events, this is not an acceptable solution to a very basic setting change that should be accessible.
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Hi,
See from the business perspective, but not from the system point of view.
Intial triggering point for any business operation(inquiry , quotation , order - others are dependant transactions) is sold to party ( the one who place the order), which means at the time of placing the order, respective business partner should completely aware of & disclose the required details to complete the business deal.
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to whom business has to send the copy of invoice &
who is gonna settle this invoice amount.
So Sold to party will have all the required details. Hence one sold to party act as the other business partners.
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Anyway, if you would like to provide feedback to Apple, here's how:
Apple Feedback

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