News - iPhone clock glitch strikes again

[kasavien]

my wp7 adjusted itself. Although I didn't trust it and got up on sunday thinking it was 8:30 old time, 9:30 new time, when in fact it was 7:30 old time, 8:30 new time

[TheAnimus]

heh for me it was a bit different looking for a bus for a mate saying "wait there should be one before 3am.... oh its DST".

Handy thing about having a mechanical watch.

[funke_munke]

Had no idea DST was about to hit - made it to work without realising. Using Froyo. Love my half price working alarm clock!

[mrochester]

but Apple software doesn't have bugs.... Ever.

Apple software has plenty of bugs! I doubt there's any piece of software out there that's bug free

[Barrichello]

Its happened again? and people pay how much for these things?

Not looking forward to getting my BB replaced with a iphone at work

[mrochester]

Its happened again? and people pay how much for these things?

Not looking forward to getting my BB replaced with a iphone at work

Well, expecting any electrical product to be totally problem free is a bit naive. Mind, it's a bit silly that Apple can't make the clock work properly. I don't think alarm clocks not working are going to make people throw away their iPhones; they'll just live with the issue until Apple get it fixed.

[aidanjt]

Yeah, date and time code is rather rudimentary, if you can't get that pinned down, you should really do something else, like flipping burgers.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

you should really do something else, like flipping burgers.

On the iPad 2. There is an app for that.

[mrochester]

Yeah, date and time code is rather rudimentary, if you can't get that pinned down, you should really do something else, like flipping burgers.

I'm sure Apple will get the bug fixed eventually. If rudimentary funtions have to be bug free, there'd be no smartphone market to even speak of!

[aidanjt]

I mean it's a basic problem. If you can't solve a basic and important problem, then complex problems are going to be well out of your reach.

Screwing up date and time code is just embarrassing as far as systems programming goes.

[Funkstar]

Screwing up the DST/clock/alarm code once is a little bit embarrassing, especially when it worked just fine in previous versions of the OS. But have it screw up three times in the last 6 months is either ignorant, lazy, careless or just plain stupid! I can't decide which.

This really does highlight how blinkered the press and iPhone users are to whatever Apple does. If this had been any other OS (mobile or not) that vendor would be hounded until a hot fix was issued and a promise that it would happen again extracted from product heads or even senior management.

[spoon_]

my iPhone both updated itself when the clocks went forward and the alarm went off when it was supposed to

Stuff this into mounts of people above you and add "Sent on time from my iPhone"



Haha!


My Blackberry clocks works perfectly but I don't use it, traditional alarm clock by the bed works just fine.

[andyb123]

to be fair (which I rarely am), my galaxy s updated the time correctly, but then on monday morning my 8am alarm actually went off at 9am

haven't heard of mass android problems of this nature so guessing it must be a samsung specific bug

[mrochester]

I mean it's a basic problem. If you can't solve a basic and important problem, then complex problems are going to be well out of your reach.

Screwing up date and time code is just embarrassing as far as systems programming goes.

Good job that isn't the case here then. Maybe Apple have been too busy sorting the complex problems and have neglected the alarm clock bug?

[spoon_]

Good job that isn't the case here then. Maybe Apple have been too busy sorting the complex problems and have neglected the alarm clock bug?

I think you're trying to justify too much. Whether you hate or love Apple this should be put to bed when it happened last year.

Alarm clock is a basic thing to get right, like copying files in Windows etc.

Reading comments in this thread its a bit of a mix, we got one user if an iPhone saying that his alarm worked fine, one Android as well saying his alarm clock went nuts.

Not very conclusive.

[mrochester]

I think you're trying to justify too much. Whether you hate or love Apple this should be put to bed when it happened last year.

Alarm clock is a basic thing to get right, like copying files in Windows etc.

Reading comments in this thread its a bit of a mix, we got one user if an iPhone saying that his alarm worked fine, one Android as well saying his alarm clock went nuts.

Not very conclusive.

I agree it should be fixed pronto, but it's not as big a deal as many are making it out to be. It's a bug, these things happen.