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kevinp8192

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Jul 25, 2012
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Odd issue creating a Weekly reminder in MacOS (I'm running 15.4 on M1 MBA). In the Reminders App, I'm trying to create a weekly reminder that repeats on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. But I keep getting odd, unpredictable results when doing a custom "repeat." For example, after many random selecting and unselecting in the "custom" repeat box, I found if I select:

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It will return "Every week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday." (but not Saturday). But what logic is this? If I select:

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(which is how I think it should work) It returns "Every week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday" (not Sunday). It seems to be impossible to set correct custom weekly days without randomness. It works fine if I edit it in iOS. It definitely may be a user error, so is it just me? Bug? Can you recreate this? Thx.
 
Thanks so much for checking! It must be a bug in 15.4. After your reply, I restarted my MBA, restarted Reminders, etc. and got the same results. Maybe someone else with 15.4 could check?
 
The bug seems to be that the week days displayed in the custom frequency window don't adapt to what you choose as the first day of week in the Language and Region system settings. It works well if you just ignore the initial of the days displayed in the frequency window when you set the days for reminding you.
 
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