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From: bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
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Subject: Re: HP-48 Alarms, problems, and a solution.
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Date: 18 Mar 91 21:54:27 GMT
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In article <3794@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> peraino@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Bob Peraino) writes:
>     You can use the smaller units to accomplish this. For example, if, for
>a repeat interval you put in 365 days, it shows up as 52.1428571429 weeks,
>the largest unit it understands. I understand what you're saying, but it's
>not impossible. 

Doesn't work for leap year, though.  Probably the best solution is to
write a control alarm that figures out when to reschedule itself.
Example: the daylight saving time routines that were posted here a
while back.

>Unacknowledged REPEATING alarms are NOT pending. This, of course, makes
>some kind of sense, since if it's pending, it won't repeat.

Try setting flag -43.  The manual is pretty confusing about this flag.
What it does is delay rescheduling of a repeating appointment alarm
until you acknowledge it.  While this prevents multiple occurrences of
an alarm between acknowledgements, it is usually not a problem.  Flag
-43 has no effect on control alarms.
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