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I’ve been trying to create a calendar event that repeats every 4 weeks. And when I check on the event it does say repeat every 4 weeks. But when I check the calendar in future months it is listed sometimes after 3 weeks and sometimes 5 weeks.
Anyone else had this problem and a suggestion about how to fix it?
Regards,
Joan
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Have you tried using every 28 days instead? I did a test event, and that seemed to work fine on my iPhone iOS 18.1.
Sorry, I didn’t try my desktop computer.
Jackie
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On Nov 9, 2024, at 6:21?PM, Joan Sax via groups.io <jsax@...> wrote:
I’ve been trying to create a calendar event that repeats every 4 weeks. And when I check on the event it does say repeat every 4 weeks. But when I check the calendar in future months it is listed sometimes after 3 weeks and sometimes 5 weeks.
Anyone else had this problem and a suggestion about how to fix it?
Regards,
Joan
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I have no problem creating it on my Mac mini, running Catalina. What device and OS are you using?
Brent ?
On my Mac mini running 10.15.7?
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On Nov 9, 2024, at 4:21 PM, Joan Sax via < jsax@...> wrote:
I’ve been trying to create a calendar event that repeats every 4 weeks. And when I check on the event it does say repeat every 4 weeks. But when I check the calendar in future months it is listed sometimes after 3 weeks and sometimes 5 weeks.
Anyone else had this problem and a suggestion about how to fix it?
Regards,
Joan
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It would help if you would list which device and OS version. Also, you didn’t say how you created the repeat?
On my iPad, iPadOS 18.1, I used:
Repeat > Custom >
Frequency: Weekly
Every: 4 weeks
Selected day of week as Wednesday
Which resulted in every 4 weeks on a Wednesday.
OTOH, choosing:
Repeat > Every Month
Displays the event on the same day of the month (e.g., 15th), which will naturally result in a different number of weeks between each event.
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On Nov 9, 2024, at 6:21?PM, Joan Sax via groups.io <jsax@...> wrote:
I’ve been trying to create a calendar event that repeats every 4 weeks. And when I check on the event it does say repeat every 4 weeks. But when I check the calendar in future months it is listed sometimes after 3 weeks and sometimes 5 weeks.
Anyone else had this problem and a suggestion about how to fix it?
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Bev in TX
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Thanks, Jackie. That worked. I was setting it on an iPhone.
Regards,
Joan
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It does seem silly to have to put ‘daily’ in the custom section and then put in 28. In the English I’ve been using for over 8 decades ‘daily’ means every day, period!
Regards,
Joan
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On Nov 10, 2024, at 04:07, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
It would help if you would list which device and OS version. Also, you didn’t say how you created the repeat?
On my iPad, iPadOS 18.1, I used:
Repeat > Custom >
Frequency: Weekly
Every: 4 weeks
Selected day of week as Wednesday
Which resulted in every 4 weeks on a Wednesday. I did the same, on a Mac, without selecting the day of the week, and it still put the repeat event on the same day of the week, because that is how every 4 weeks, or every 28 days, works.
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It is sometimes more difficult to create events on an iPhone, or at least to discover where the settings are hidden on an iPhone, but I was able to do this under iOS 17.6.1.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Nov 10, 2024, at 04:56, Joan Sax via groups.io <jsax@...> wrote:
Thanks, Jackie. That worked. I was setting it on an iPhone.
Regards,
Joan
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Then tell me, how would you describe a 3 day or 5 day interval, if you call the others weekly, monthly and yearly?
The grammatical error of “daily every 28” is just an expedience by the programmer. And is parsed by the human brain just as easily as “weekly every 4”. At least it is a grammatical error in English, but is it, in say Spanish, French, German or other language?
English grammar is backwards from many languages of the world.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Nov 10, 2024, at 05:00, Joan Sax via groups.io <jsax@...> wrote:
?It does seem silly to have to put ‘daily’ in the custom section and then put in 28. In the English I’ve been using for over 8 decades ‘daily’ means every day, period!
Regards,
Joan
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Bev in TX wrote:
Repeat > Custom >
???Frequency: Weekly
???Every: 4 weeks
???Selected day of week as Wednesday
Which resulted in every 4 weeks on a Wednesday.
Brent wrote: I did the same, on a Mac, without selecting the day of the week, and it still put the repeat event on the same day of the week, because that is how every 4 weeks, or every 28 days, works.
On the Mac, or the iPhone, it is possible to use “Custom”, and have a reminder appear, for example, on the 2nd Monday of each month.
I even have Reminders set for clock changes:
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Yes, Jim, but for years, the last part of the Custom menu has been allusive to me. Joan’s thread has finally revealed it on the iPhone to me.?
In Oregon, auto registration and smog is every two years, and I could not find the modifier to set the repeat from annually, to every two years.?
Apple like to hide gawd d$*& things. Like Apple hides the X to close a Tab, but on one device puts it on the left and another on the right.?
Don’t believe me, look at the Apple keyboards, particularly the on-screen keyboards. Look at the placement of the special characters. Look at which key have - / ! &% $ ?and *. Now remember how some on-screen keyboards have both . and com appear with the lowercase letters when an e-ddress needs to be entered, but only a small percentage of the time.?
One of my passwords gets entered by muscle memory, EXCEPT that the two special characters move around. And so entering it becomes hunt and peck.?
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On Nov 10, 2024, at 11:03, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
? Bev in TX wrote:
Repeat > Custom >
???Frequency: Weekly
???Every: 4 weeks
???Selected day of week as Wednesday
Which resulted in every 4 weeks on a Wednesday.
Brent wrote: I did the same, on a Mac, without selecting the day of the week, and it still put the repeat event on the same day of the week, because that is how every 4 weeks, or every 28 days, works.
On the Mac, or the iPhone, it is possible to use “Custom”, and have a reminder appear, for example, on the 2nd Monday of each month.
I even have Reminders set for clock changes: <Screenshot 2024-11-10 at 2.01.45?PM.jpg>
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On Nov 10, 2024, at 12:02?PM, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
I even have Reminders set for clock changes:
And, before dismissing “pedant mode” for the day, I’ll make the observation that probably neither of us lives close enough to an all-night airport for this to make any practical difference, but the times don’t change at 23:59, they do so at 0200.
Admittedly, the likelihood that will make any difference in most people’s lives is minuscule.
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Jim Robertson
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I figured out what to do in Calendar to creat an event that repeats every 4 weeks.
Click on Custom, then Custom again, Frequency, Weekly, 4 (for four weeks)
Regards,
Joan
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Yes, Bev’s suggestion works on my iPhone as well.
Thanks for reporting back! I will suggest that next time we all make comments on one thread, as now I see 3 separate threads all discussing the same issue ?
Jackie
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On Nov 10, 2024, at 2:24?PM, Joan Sax via groups.io <jsax@...> wrote:
I figured out what to do in Calendar to creat an event that repeats every 4 weeks.
Click on Custom, then Custom again, Frequency, Weekly, 4 (for four weeks)
Regards,
Joan
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I’m thinking you’re both correct to a point. Officially, the changes happen at 2:00 am, but if you fly or have to be at work in the early am, changing the clock as you go to bed the night before makes sense.?
My dad was a news photographer who flew internationally, long before “go bags” got their name. We were taught to write down messages in military time, in the time zone of the event, not the time zone of home base.?
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On Nov 10, 2024, at 12:10, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? On Nov 10, 2024, at 12:02?PM, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
I even have Reminders set for clock changes:
And, before dismissing “pedant mode” for the day, I’ll make the observation that probably neither of us lives close enough to an all-night airport for this to make any practical difference, but the times don’t change at 23:59, they do so at 0200.
Admittedly, the likelihood that will make any difference in most people’s lives is minuscule.
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Jim Robertson
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Jim Saklad wrote: I even have Reminders set for clock changes
Jim Robertson And, before dismissing “pedant mode” for the day, I’ll make the observation that probably neither of us lives close enough to an all-night airport for this to make any practical difference, but the times don’t change at 23:59, they do so at 0200.
I did that specifically and intentionally.
At “Fall Back” time change, I don’t much care that I’m getting an extra hour’s sleep that night, or that I will wake up an hour earlier than I expected to, so the Reminder is there simply to *remind* me. Except for our thermostats, pretty much all our clocks auto-change. Even the cars.
But at “Spring Forward” time change, I will lose an hour’s sleep, and I want to be reminded of that BEFORE I go to bed, in case I want to go to bed earlier than usual, or something. So even though the clocks shift at 0200, I set my Reminder for 2359, 2 hours before the event.
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