Apple Support Acknowledges iOS 4.1 Daylight Saving Time Bug

[Riiick]

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I'm running iOS 4.2 GM and got the "alarm bug" this morning. It was set to go off at 5:30, went off at 4:30 but the clock had actualy changed to 5:30... Took me a couple of snooze before I notice the the time was wrong (comparing to my other clock that I had not changed the time on yet). Restarted the phone and the clock went back to the correct time.

 

[Folkatronic]

My iphone alarm seems to have reset to the actual time today, just as apple promised

no update of 4.2 though

so it seems that all iphone alarms, were all set to American daylight savings, not linked to their local timezones DST

stuns me that no one at apple realised this when programming the alarm

 

[alent1234]

got hit as well

alarm was supposed to go off at 5:45am and went off at 6:45am. good thing i have two kids with the oldest being 3

 

[Edwin124]

got hit as well

alarm was supposed to go off at 5:45am and went off at 6:45am. good thing i have two kids with the oldest being 3

I got hit with this as well, was working fine up until DST actually kicked in. Was set to go off at 6am and went off at 7am making me late for work

 

[swirlybee]

me too. Alarm was set to 5:50AM, but it didn't actually go off until 6:45AM.

 

[agentkow]

My iPhone alarm went off an hour late today, too, despite the clock being correct. Also glad for my two little alarm clocks, who have yet to adjust to DST...

 

[Intarweb]

Mine also. Glad I was up early.

 

[benhollberg]

After hearing about this I decided to do some tests. So yesterday I set three alarms: all for Sunday morning wanting them to go off at 7:45. 1) 7:45 no repeats, 2) 7:46 with repeats everyday, 3) 6:44 with repeats. This morning they all went off exactly as they were set. It appears maybe this issue might not affect all iPhones. I am iPhone 4 with 4.1.

So yes I tried this again this morning. Guess what, it happened this time. Just as everyone was expecting. Kinda odd that it did it this morning when I thought it was going to do it Sunday also.

Does this mean that I can set new repeating alarms now and they will work correctly?

 

[TodVader]

I have been so concentrated on xcode the lasts weeks that I stopped checking news. I woke up late for an appointment this morning because of this. LoLs, pretty newbish for a multi billion dollar company... not impressed

 

[CoreForce]

My weekday repeating alarm was one hour late today as well.

It has to be concluded that the Apple support statement is 100% wrong. Very bad analysis work!