ICal events automatically changed my alert time.

The events I have scheduled in iCal started alerting me today. I looked in my calendar and found that all of my events had an alert scheduled for "at time of event." I never had my events alerts turned on. I checked back several months and forward several months, and the were all on, in addition to that, I found that when I changed the alert to "none," it didn't prompt me to change all future events. So, I would have to go through and change every event. Not going to happen. Any body else have this issue? Any fixes?

This is most likely due to the clocks changing at the end of the month. Events before the clocks change will be ok, events after will be one hour out
This is just a limtation in the way iSync & Sony Ericsson phones handle the clocks changing.
When the clocks do change just adjust the daylight savings setting in the phone and re-sync. All future events will be correct until the next clocks change in 6 months.

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