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iPhone Wants To Hang On To the Old Year

Posted by timothy on from the 223*3*3 dept.

pdclarry writes "Users of the iPhone have noticed that it is showing December 31, 2007, even where it is already the new year. There have been a number of reports confirming the problem: Bug in Clock, Problem with New Year: My Clock — shows wrong year, Worldclock went wrong for "tomorrow" items."

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  1. DateTime issues with ARM CPU on other platforms by cwolfsheep · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The iPhone uses an ARM CPU for its processor. I did a Google search on any DateTime-related problems, and found two of interest, one of which was solved by disabling code optimizations. Someone with more experience should look into this idea.
    http://readlist.com/lists/lists.ximian.com/mono-list/1/5148.html
    http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=9080

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  2. Re:So silly bug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    When the local year rolls over to 2008 it corrects itself.

    So it is a limited bug.

  3. 1.1.3 by gutnor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess that we now know for sure 1 of the features of the new firmware 1.1.3.
    Compatibility with 2008 !