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iOS 4.1 Daylight Saving Time Bug Strikes Europe

Woke up an hour late!!

I woke up an hour late, my alarm was set for 6:00am. It went off at 7:00am. How stupid. I'm on my iPhone 4, iOS4.1
 
cohibadad said:
The day SJ and/or :apple: advocates Daylight Savings Time is the day I call them idiots too. But they won't cuz they're smart. DST is an idiotic idea with idiotic consequences and this DST bug is just an obvious one. When the world was rural and having a certain time on your pocketwatch be during daylight hours made you feel warm and fuzzy inside maybe it was no big deal but now it is ridiculous. It will end and people will laugh at those silly folk from our decades that thought it made sense.
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I actually think we should be on daylight saving all year in the uk. More light in the evenings in winter. But apparently people in scotland do not want their kids going to school in the dark.
 
i am on the East Coast of the US, had my alarm set for 6am and it went off at 5am.


re-occurring alarm.
 
I wish i could contribute to this but i was so badly hungover Sunday morning that if i had set an alarm i would have slept straight through it lol.
 
Canada too

It is effecting Canada as well. Sunday morning my Alarm went off an hour early. This morning I set it for an hour later.

I assume it has something to do with the fact that the clocks used to change last Saturday. Friday my alarm went off at the correct time.

There is no excuse for this problem to still exist. They should have fixed it as soon as they knew it was going to be a problem.

Jobs is probably already trying to spin it as a feature...
"Apple gives you an extra hour per day, does Android do that?!"
sent at 5:45 AM from my iPhone4
 
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For those tho are affected by this and don't want to change their time an hour out or set their alarms an hour out, I've found you can do the following as a temporary fix:
Settings - General - Date & Time - turn off automatically update. Change time zone to Lagos, Nigeria. Set the time. Test your alarms.


Lagos just happened to work for me, was the first one I tried.
Yes, this will change your time as soon as you change timezone, that's why you need to set the time after changing the timezone.

Not that it matters, but I'm in the UK.
Sorry if someone's figured out and posted something similar before. On my iPhone and didn't want to search thru all the posts!
 
Hey,

I am in Australia, and the bug isn't just that the alarms were going off an hour late or early. It was reported in our papers that some alarms weren't going off at all, which was the case with me.

When I did wake up, the alarm icon was still on up the top-right corner, but when I went into my alarms, it was set to off.

The same thing had happened a few months earlier (when there was no daylight savings change). So it has to be a bit of a deeper problem than just to do with daylight savings.
 
What bothers me the most is the fact that Apple hasn't given any explanation why this happened and when and what are they going to do about it. Its just like Apple butt ****ed millions and they think its nothing major. :mad:
 
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I wondered why my alarm hadn't gone off.
 
Thankfully I don't use my iPhone as an alarm, though this error looks like it has messed up the timing of my recurring meetings which is a real pain as I have loads. One of my work colleagues was late in today as his iPhone alarm went off late and he wasn't too impressed when he found out Apple knew about the issue but have't bothered to communicate or fix it. All this amused the Android users I work with no end as they didn't have this problem.

Must admit I'm starting to get concerned about Apple and the number of issues they have had recently. They really need to up their QC and testing otherwise they'll end up with a reputation as bad as Microsoft.
 
I'm on 4.0.1 and my alarm went off at the correct time. Is it a 4.1 only thing?
 
Thankfully my kids woke me up on time. My alarm finally went off while I was on my way to work! Bit of an embarrassing bug... My girlfriend though it was amusing.. She's not a fan of apple so it just added fuel to the fire :(
 
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0815 said:
flopticalcube said:
At least they could program a simple DST algorithm.
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Nope:

http://www.***********/?q=XP+DST+bug

EDIT:eek:k, seems I can't post a link: just google for "XP DST bug"
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Big difference: XP is very rarely running the device you depend on to get you out of bed in the morning.
 
If there's a problem domestically, it's probably because DST *used* to end this past weekend. It was changed under the Bush administration to save money in energy bills to last longer, I believe (DST lasting two weeks longer and beginning two weeks earlier, I think).
 
Pathetic

It is a shame that as apple expand their quality control suffers. I want to rely on apple for my kit but as I get let down more frequently I am forced to move to alternatives.

1) Can no longer trust my phone as my alarm, calendar, appointments
A) Need to now purchase an alarm

2) Airtunes stutters constantly
A) Sonos - and sell the airport extremes I purchased

3) Time capsule - wifi range not as effective as the O2 wireless Box II (free from mobile phone operator)
A) Not sure what I am going to do about it yet

4) New Apple TV
A) Not yet got but hope there are no problems.

5) MBP
A) The only thing keeping my apple love.
 
Either way, I don't think it'd be Apple's fault if people would lose their jobs if they were one hour late for work once a year. If so, then either a. you work in way too totalitarian of a company (but whatevs, it's your choice) or b. you deserve to be canned because this obviously isn't your first time being late
 
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