Why is it so difficult to find toilets at night after 9 pm?

All-day-event alarms at 11:50 PM are evil.

• On my iPod Touch, I use the Calendar app, which is synced to my Google Calendar (which is Google Apps for Education, if that matters.) I like having a reminder/alert for most events that occurs 10 minutes before the event. (It has saved my bacon a couple of times when I forgot an appointment, and I find it useful for keeping me on track during the day.) However, I do not want to hear an alert at 11:50 PM before All-Day events. If I remember to disable the Reminder on each all-day event in Google Calendar, then great—but all-day events are a quick way to drop information onto my calendar, so I often add them when busy and/or distracted, and I don't usually remember to disable the reminder. Then I get an alert for the event on my iPod at 11:50 PM, which wakes me up and makes me cranky. Google's documentation https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/105833?hl=en that reminders for all-day events will arrive at 5 PM the previous day, but this is not what http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/THscLWELKZE. I'm pretty sure pop-up reminders on my computer are not arriving at 5 PM, either! (My time zone is set correctly on both Google Calendar and my iPod; I haven't had any problems with the timing of other alerts, even when traveling and changing time zones.) Google Calendar has no way to set the defaults for all-day events differently from regular events. In the iOS Calendar app, you can set the default alert for all-day events and regular events separately, but this only applies to events created within the Calendar app, while events that come over from Google either come over with the 11:50-PM alert. I'm not sure if it's Google or Calendar that's doing it. The fact that the alert is 10 minutes before the event seems to implicate Google, because that's how I have Reminders set up there, and all my Default Alert Times in Calendar are set to None. Finally, on my iPod, I set Notifications to Do Not Disturb from 11:45 PM to midnight. This worked for a while, but (I think) with an iOS update this spring, it stopped working, possibly because I use http://www.sleepcycle.com/, so the iPod is https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4310421?start=0&tstart=0 at night. Please tell me there's a solution other than manually changing the Reminder on each all-day event!

• Answer:

  I have the same problem. I don't have a technological solution for you, but what I do now is just to append '8 am' to anything when I add it to my calendar and don't want to include a specified date. Since Google Calendar is pretty good at parsing text, it works well, and I don't get woken up until I would have been anyway. I'm really interested to see what other solutions people have.