iPhone Clock Bug Prevents Alarm Triggers after New Year's

[yg17]

Actually, this would NOT be caught by "black box" testing, since the current date of the iPhone is set automatically. You would specifically have to override the automatic date function to simulate the transition to 2011, then run the alarm test.

The iPhone sets it's clock from the network. You could setup your own mini-network, completely isolated from the outside world and then the network's time servers could be adjusted as necessary. The iPhone still sets the clock on its own and it can be tested.

And setting up a mini cellular network for testing isn't far-fetched. Apple's probably done it, I doubt AT&T or any other carrier (or the FCC for that matter) would allow an early prototype phone on their network

 

[SandynJosh]

My iPhone 4 alarm failed on Jan 1st and Jan 2nd. I read it was supposed to work today, Jan 3rd. Wrong!

Great! Now I will have to travel around with an extra alarm clock because my $600 phone is unreliable.

If it's any consolation, this morning the great turtle-necked one personally stripped the alarm-coding department of their pocket protectors and banished the coder and his supervisor to cleaning the lunch refrigerators in the break room. A position that will surely test their skills, given what we know now of their competency.

 

[SandynJosh]

If only the world ended in 2011 and not 2012 then no one would have noticed

According to a bunch of religious nuts, the world all starts unwinding May of 2011, so you won't even need to consider buying iPhone 5 in June. However you will get at least one good month to play with the second generation iPad before the heavenly hosts break out their Vuvuzela horns.

 

[AAPLaday]

According to a bunch of religious nuts, the world all starts unwinding May of 2011, so you won't even need to consider buying iPhone 5 in June. However you will get at least one good month to play with the second generation iPad before the heavenly hosts break out their Vuvuzela horns.

So no iPhone 6 then? This next one better have frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads

 

[ChiciPad]

We Waitng

 

[ghoti]

We Waitng

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