Google Calendar – How to Get Notified During All-Day Events

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On the Google Calendar page I can access via a web browser, I can click on:

Settings cogwheel | Calendars | to the right of any calendar entry click Edit notifications.

The help icon next to All-day event notifications: says:

Event notifications tell you about an all-day event at a specified
time some number of days before it begins. For example, if you’d like
to be alerted about an all-day event at 9 am the day before it occurs,
you’d set a notification.

However, IMHO there are several use cases where one would need to be notified during the same day about an all-day event. The classical scenario is birthdays. I don't want to know about them the day before, but during the same day, perhaps in the morning around 8:30, or perhaps in the afternoon after work hours around 7:00 PM, these are the times when I would like the notification to be sent out for such all-day events, not the day before.

  • Is there a way to configure such behavior in Google calendar, and if not then why is it missing / why is it not possible to program such behavior into Google calendar?

Best Answer

OK, perhaps the help message had some issues, but now I see that when I go to a specific calendar's Settings | Edit notifications tab I have the opportunity to set the following under "All-day event notifications:" which would pertain to the selected calendar whose settings I would be configuring:

  • Notification method: pop-up, e-mail, or SMS
  • specify 0 days before event to have the event reminder on the very same day
  • specify the time (e.g. 6:30) you want to be notified about the event

You can even set more than one notification of the same type for either all-day events or regular events, and can set as many plans to receive notifications as you want.

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