Reminder in outlook 2003 by flagging email can be set in past

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Outlook 2003 11.6568.6568 SP2
Right click on email set reminder. I set it for today at 3:00 am instead of
3:00 pm. It was already 11:00 am when I set it.

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Dan1roda said:
Outlook 2003 11.6568.6568 SP2
Right click on email set reminder. I set it for today at 3:00 am
instead of 3:00 pm. It was already 11:00 am when I set it.
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Is there a question or a suggestion in this anywhere, or do you just want to
state the facts?
 
I'm sorry, I thought it was obvious; why can reminders be set for a time that
has already past? The reminder will never be triggered.
 
Dan1roda said:
I'm sorry, I thought it was obvious; why can reminders be set for a
time that has already past? The reminder will never be triggered.
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The most logical reason seems to me to be that the writers of Outlook didn't
implement a check, but I don't see why anyone should care. It certainly
doesn't hurt anything to set the reminder for some time in the past. I'd
like to know why you think it's an issue.
 
Older versions of Outlook didn't allow a reminder on an item in the past.
There were lots of complaints so it was changed in Outlook 2003. You can't
please everyone <shrug>. The reminder would fire immediately on a past due
reminder but if one doesn't want that it's certainly easy enough to kill the
reminder flag before saving the item. And how many people create past due
appointments very often?
 
Yes people don't often set a reminder in the past on purpose, but if you do
it by mistake you will never be notified of the important task. I can't
think of a reason why you would want to set a reminder in the past. Why
would people complain about that?
 
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