elementary / elementary/calendar
Reminders are configured to trigger a notification after the event instead of before
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Description
### What Happened?
When creating a reminder for an event, the time span set to trigger a notification is applied after the event instead of before.
Here's an example of the time set in elementary OS calendar:

This is how Thunderbird reads it:

As well as the Fastmail calendar UI where it is actually hosted:

I've had this issue for ages, and I initially thought it was a timezone mixup. But now I can see it's a bug.
### Steps to Reproduce
1. Create a new event in Calendar
2. Set a reminder for the event (e.g. 2 hours before)
3. Go to another app to see the reminder setting to verify how it's applied
### Expected Behavior
Events should trigger before, just like the Calendar UI communicates it.
### OS Version
7.x (Horus)
### Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
### Log Output
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### Hardware Info

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