“As NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT and South Australia switched to daylight saving time at the weekend, a bug in the Apple iPhone caused some workers to run late yesterday,” Ben Grubb reports for The Syndey Morning Herald. “The bug appears to affect only those with a ‘recurring’ alarm.”
Grubb reports, “There has been no indication when a fix might be made available. Apple Australia has been contacted for comment but is yet to respond… The bug appears to affect all of Apple’s products running iOS – Apple’s operating system for its iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Last week Apple blog TUAW noted the same issue for New Zealand iOS users.”
Grubb reports, “Whirlpool user Mr.Likeable suggested that recurring alarms set prior to daylight saving time would make your iPhone alarm go off one hour later than you wanted it to and that an alarm set since the time change would make it go off one hour earlier.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Watch those alarms (set ’em manually) until Apple pushes out a fix.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Luke C.” for the heads up.]
What happened to the QA/QC department? I think they fell asleep on this one:-)
What happened to the QA/QC department? I think they fell asleep on this one:-)
@ silverwarloc
Well they were obviously an hour late for work that day.
@ silverwarloc
Well they were obviously an hour late for work that day.
Apple iPhone uses the cell phone time. I checked with naval observatory time over the internet, acc. to .1 sec and the cell towers are telling the phone its 34 seconds off. and you cannot really override it. There is no setting the seconds or minutes, only the time zone.
I am thinking that this is the problem. Cell towers still show pre daylight savings time but if you change time zones to adjust and next tower shows correct time, well, you get the picture.
Just a thought,
en
Apple iPhone uses the cell phone time. I checked with naval observatory time over the internet, acc. to .1 sec and the cell towers are telling the phone its 34 seconds off. and you cannot really override it. There is no setting the seconds or minutes, only the time zone.
I am thinking that this is the problem. Cell towers still show pre daylight savings time but if you change time zones to adjust and next tower shows correct time, well, you get the picture.
Just a thought,
en
What is Daylight Saving Time?
A weird Government Time Cult Fetish that effects peoples health?
A boffin experiment in Time Travel that’s gotten out of control?
A product of a long past war that should have been phased out decades ago?
A world governments scheme to keep the poor poor and the politicians in power to milk as much cash as they can from the middle class?
A Government backed Alien Plot to see who will follow what their government tells them without question?
The Oil companies plan increase global warming and decrease energy conservation?
The Catholic Churche’s scheme to control Governments and the faithful to maintain the churches coffers and keep their powers over governments and the lesser intelligent populous of the world?
God’s plan to finally rid the earth of the pestilence called human kind?
Arizona has no Daylight Saving Time because, the earth does not change it’s rotational speed or direction at set times of the year based on proclamations made by men.
What is Daylight Saving Time?
A weird Government Time Cult Fetish that effects peoples health?
A boffin experiment in Time Travel that’s gotten out of control?
A product of a long past war that should have been phased out decades ago?
A world governments scheme to keep the poor poor and the politicians in power to milk as much cash as they can from the middle class?
A Government backed Alien Plot to see who will follow what their government tells them without question?
The Oil companies plan increase global warming and decrease energy conservation?
The Catholic Churche’s scheme to control Governments and the faithful to maintain the churches coffers and keep their powers over governments and the lesser intelligent populous of the world?
God’s plan to finally rid the earth of the pestilence called human kind?
Arizona has no Daylight Saving Time because, the earth does not change it’s rotational speed or direction at set times of the year based on proclamations made by men.
@ElderNorm, cell tower timers can’t be the entire problem because iOS-based iPods are affected too.
@ElderNorm, cell tower timers can’t be the entire problem because iOS-based iPods are affected too.
@AZ_Girl
Time and time zones are a human invention. The earth rotating has nothing to do with it.
@AZ_Girl
Time and time zones are a human invention. The earth rotating has nothing to do with it.
@AZ_Girl
I think that we save time in the U.S. because we can’t seem to save anything else – money, wetlands, old growth forests, energy, etc.
@AZ_Girl
I think that we save time in the U.S. because we can’t seem to save anything else – money, wetlands, old growth forests, energy, etc.
Now if this were on a mac a quick applescript would fix it. But the iphone has no script editor…
Now if this were on a mac a quick applescript would fix it. But the iphone has no script editor…
@ AZ_Girl,
The golf course owners got together and lobbied the various governments to bring in Daylight Savings Time.
It was a scheme to get golfers who work for a living to play 9 or even 18 holes after work during the week and not just play it on the weekends. It kick started the golfing industry that we know today.
Give key politicians free golf club memberships and you can get anything done.
@ AZ_Girl,
The golf course owners got together and lobbied the various governments to bring in Daylight Savings Time.
It was a scheme to get golfers who work for a living to play 9 or even 18 holes after work during the week and not just play it on the weekends. It kick started the golfing industry that we know today.
Give key politicians free golf club memberships and you can get anything done.
Big Al
That’s the best and most plausible explanation I’ve ever heard concerning daylight saving time. Thank you for the research!
Big Al
That’s the best and most plausible explanation I’ve ever heard concerning daylight saving time. Thank you for the research!
kinda weird in here today.
kinda weird in here today.
@AZ_Girl
Daylight saving time (DST) – also summer time in British English – is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson. Many countries have used it since then; details vary by location and change occasionally.
The practice is controversial. Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming, evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun. Traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight. Its effect on health and crime is less clear. Although an early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity, modern heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited or contradictory.
@AZ_Girl
Daylight saving time (DST) – also summer time in British English – is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson. Many countries have used it since then; details vary by location and change occasionally.
The practice is controversial. Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming, evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun. Traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight. Its effect on health and crime is less clear. Although an early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity, modern heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited or contradictory.
I’ve heard that farmers in Kentucky complain that the extra hour of sunlight ruins their crops.