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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. Confirmed! by sg3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just checked my iPhone, and the world clock says New Delhi is 2007/12/31, rather than 2008/01/01. The regular calendar that handles appointments is unaffected since all my appointments are showing up in 2008 correctly.

    I assume that this surprise (not bug) in the world clock is because the iPhone is so cool that we will no longer be advancing years beyond the year 2007. 2007 will be henceforth referred to the "year of our iPhone". Changing from our current B.C./A.D. system to this now A.i.P. calendar system is the real news.

    Happy Year 1 A.i.P. everyone!

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    1. Re:Confirmed! by secolactico · · Score: 5, Funny

      Happy Year 1 A.i.P. everyone!

      Wait... shouldn't it be 2 A.i.P.? I mean, since the year formerly known as 2007 is now 1 A.i.P. not 0 A.i.P. right?

      I can already hear the discussions 100 years from now as to when does the next century really start...

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    2. Re:Confirmed! by Ambiguous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm not so sure...I mean, A.i.P. stands for *After* iPhone, right? So 2007 was *during* the coming of the iPhone. It's sort of like counting from negative to positive. We say ..., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ..., rather than ..., -2, -1, 1, 2, ...

      This way, 2007 is simply the central point from which you count outwards. Anything prior is negative (clearly, since there was no iPhone...how could anything be *positive* in such a state? It's a wonder we survived those dark ages) and anything after is positive (because we have the iPhone! The time of enlightenment has arrived!)

      At least with the iPhone, we're much more likely to witness a second coming...and a third, fourth, fifth, and so on, ad nauseam. Go Apple! :P

      -G

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    3. Re:Confirmed! by aussie_a · · Score: 3, Funny

      At least with the iPhone, we're much more likely to witness a second coming...and a third, fourth, fifth, and so on, ad nauseam. I didn't know the iPhone's vibration function was so strong!
    4. Re:Confirmed! by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 5, Funny

      There are two kinds of people in the world: (1) Those who start their arrays from 1 and (1) Those who start their arrays from 0.

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    5. Re:Confirmed! by Anomolous+Cowturd · · Score: 3, Funny

      Programmers everywhere are dreading the unpredictable "second coming bug".

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  2. Not a bug by CokeBear · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its designed only to last until the end of 2007.
    Now that it is 2008, you need to buy a new one.

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  3. Y2K finally hits!! by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And they said I was crazy for stockpiling all that food!

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    1. Re:Y2K finally hits!! by rednip · · Score: 4, Funny

      Y2K finally hits!!...And they said I was crazy for stockpiling all that food! If you need to have any more 8 year old food, my fridge is an excellent source.
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  4. Occam's Razor, people! by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a little disappointed. No one seems to be considering the possibility that the OTHER clocks are wrong, and the iPhone (er, I mean, and iPhone) is right?

    I mean, come on, which is more likely, that some central time authority everyone is syncing to had a glitch, or that an Apple product was in some way imperfect?

    Think about it.

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  5. Hey, my phone says 12/31 too! by rob1980 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh wait, it's only 830. nm.

  6. iPod Touch screwed up also... by Aphrika · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, it seemed to be ok, until I go into the clock application and all the dates read 08/01/01.

    System settings say 1 January 2008, so I assume it's a display error. At least it rolled over into 2008 though which is what I thought the main article said was the problem. Odd really, as you'd expect such as basic issue to be caught in testing.

  7. Bug report entered by edp · · Score: 3, Informative

    I work at Apple, and I entered a bug report. I suspect the problem is merely a display error in World Clock, but, since it is affecting many people, I asked my manager to ensure the right people are notified quickly.

    The problem does not seem to affect date displays outside of World Clock. For example, if you go into General settings, then Date & Time, turn off "Set Automatically," set the date to January 1, 2008, and then look at some recent calls in the phone, you will see they have correct dates. At least for me. If somebody observes otherwise, please let me know, and I will add it to the bug report.

  8. Read your contract by DrXym · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your 2 year contract only expires when the iPhone says it does.

  9. Re:Communication bug with GSM network? by ribond · · Score: 4, Funny
    That's a pretty egregious bug. One would think that somebody should have caught it in testing.


    They're expecting you to buy a new ipod/iphone/iWhatever each year. Why should the date change? That's the 2007 model!