A scheduled reminder set to use an absolute date does not allow repeats

Set up a scheduled reminder and configure it to use an absolute date rather than any of the relative data options.

If you then try to enable any repeat functionality for that reminder the interface allows the user to set up the repeat options, but these changes are then not saved.

I can't see any reason why it should not be possible to have a reminder triggered to fire on a given date and then repeat, for example, every two weeks after that. Indeed this seems like a fairly common use case.

Consequently I'm logging this as a bug rather than a feature request.

Stack Exchange question: http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/15773/why-cant-i-set-up-a-repeating-scheduled-reminder-with-an-absolute-date