Reminder timing

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discgolfdc

Hi. I'm not sure whether this question will turn into a discussion of a
technical aspect of setting event reminders or a discussion of how Outlook
2003's reminders actually work... It seems that the question I'm about to
ask deals both with reminders set on events/calendar appointments AND tasks.

Let's say that I set a task in my tasklist to pay my car payment on "Friday,
October 5th," with a reminder set to alert me three days in advance. When I
set the reminder, I ask it to give me the reminder at 9:00am. If I turn on
my computer and open Microsoft Outlook '03 at 9:05am on October 2nd (the day
I should get the reminder), the reminder window comes up and tells me that my
"Car Payment" is "5 minutes overdue."

When I set the reminder, it seems to take on the reminder time as the actual
time the task is due, as opposed to the time I simply want to be reminded of
the upcoming task in 3 days. I would have expected the reminder box to say
that my "Car Payment" is due in "3 days."

Anyone have any feedback about this?

Thanks!
 

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