All-day-event notification: how to get notified during event, on the same day?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

No. It doesn't work. I tried and thought it will trigger a notification at 12 am but it didn't.

Best solution is to set as 'event' at 12am the same day.
As Google calendar doesn't snooze (baffles me still why such a simple tool can't be configured, it's 2016 for crying out loud ), I have downloaded Calendar Snooze at my android to work with GCal.

Answer 3

This was not working for me when I tried to get notifications on my phone for a Facebook birthdays via an ical feed.

After a lot of troubleshooting, this finally seemed to work:

1. Create ical Calendar using HTTPS link instead of webcal link. Example: https://www.facebook.com/ical/b.php?uid=XXXXXXXXX&key=YYYYYYYYYY

2. Import your Calendar via URL

3. Enable your Calendar here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect

4. Go to your phone, head over to Calendar app. Turn syncing off for that Calendar, remove any All-day event notification settings.

5. Now add the desired All-day notification setting and turn syncing back on. You should now receive notifications properly going forward.