Katie MarsalA number of readers contacted AppleInsider Monday to note that their handset's alarms failed to go off Monday morning. Instead, alarms went off an hour late, not automatically adjusting for the change in clocks.
"Both iPhones (3GS and 4) in my house failed to go off this morning," one reader said. "Even after checking and switching the settings in time/date and in the alarm app, there is still no alarm going off. Apparently this happened before. I had to delete, all the alarms, restart my phone then re-set the alarms before they worked as expected."
Most countries in Europe conclude daylight saving time on the last Sunday in October. The same bug affected iPhone users in Australia and New Zealand in September, causing their alarms to go off an hour early in the southern hemisphere.
In North America, the switch from daylight saving time occurs later this week. Clocks will be rolled back on Sunday, Nov., 7, and if Apple doesn't issue an update for iOS, the glitch will likely affect users there as well.
In October, Apple said it was aware of the issue and had "already developed" a fix that would be available to users in an upcoming software update. That fix could be a part of iOS 4.2, which Apple said would be released for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch in November.
Though Apple indicated last month that the software fix had already been developed, it was not issued in time for the end of daylight saving time in Europe.
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This sucks. Everyone will have to use an ALARM clock, instead of their PHONE to wake them up.
I don't know about you, but my ALARM clock works great.
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This sucks. Everyone will have to use an ALARM clock, instead of their PHONE to wake them up.
I don't know about you, but my ALARM clock works great.
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So your alarm clock allows you to set an infinite number of alarms, alarms only on certain days, and tells you what the alarm is for?
That's pretty neat. Because I have to use my iPhone for appointments and the like because of early-stage severe memory loss.
It happened to me also..but all you have to do is delete your alarm setting and re-enter it (just as the one reader said).
But how could a bug like this be entered? (in perl hehe)
$alarm_time = <STDIN>; # mine is 0830
if ($continent ne 'North America' && $daylight_savings == 1)
{
$alarm_time += 100;
}
It doesn't seem like the alarm app and clock app are in sync concerning how they evaluate time.
In London, my iPhone 4 (4.2 beta 3) got me up at 6:30AM as set. My partner's iPhone 4 (4.1) also went off at the right time.
at least in the case of a computer or an iPhone you can have software that gets fixed.
My TV has an alarm function and a daylight savings time function - but no way to reprogram the DST dates - so I got up late this morning.
Many devices such as VCR - Oven - MIcrowave - Thermostat - either do not have an auto DST or if they do cannot be reprogrammed with the new dates. Then again I don't depend on any of those to wake me up in the morning.
I have also had some oddness with things such as setting a reminder while traveling in a different time zone and then finding the appt time shifted when returning home.