This is not a glitch; is correct that it's on a 24-hour timer, not a midnight reset. (Also, Frost, I hear your feedback - this is just not the appropriate forum for feedback/suggestions, but you could check if the QoL suggestions thread has it listed?)

I also wasn't aware the alert was broken - I don't see a bug report on it, and vaguely recall it was broken in the past but fixed at some point? Would you mind making a new topic on that, go ahead and make it in this subforum - though with 3 days left I don't think it will be fixed in time for this year.