Bug in iCal

There is a bug in iCal.
If you schedule a meeting (say friday 9:00) and set an alarm to "on date".
Then you drag-drop the entry to another day (say thursday 14:00).
Look at the alarm settings... they will remain unchanged.
Hence you are likely to miss your re-scheduled thursday meeting because the alarm will trigger on friday morning.
Dismal...

I don't want to put you down put I think you are finding excuses.
A calendar entry is a self contained element. An alarm on that event is part of that element. So when a calendar entry is changed, all information linked to the element are to be reconsidered.
So if the developpers thought like you suggest, they definitely did not think how the average user understand the interface.

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