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iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-it-was-my-phone dept.

nk497 writes "A flaw in the alarm clock in iPhone 4s gave Europeans a bit of a lie-in this morning. While the Apple handsets automatically adjusted to daylight savings time, a bug in the alarm system meant many were woken up an hour later than they should have been, after clocks rolled back over the weekend. Annoyingly, Australia was hit by a similar problem last month, but Apple failed to fix the problem or even warn users. American Apple fans, consider yourselves warned. The iOS4 bug can apparently be avoided by using one-off alarms, rather than pre-set regular wake-up calls."

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  1. Not just iPhone 4s by Vectormatic · · Score: 4, Informative

    my girlfriends 3gs (running iOS 4.x) had the same bug this morning.

    Fortunately, my $99 android phone woke us up at the right time

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  2. Re:Real bug: changing the time by Aqualung812 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Daylight savings saves (hence the name) billions every year in electricity costs."

    Incorrect, DST causes more electricity to be used. It is bad for the economy and the environment. Hint: Air Conditioning uses more power than lights.

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  3. Re:DST? Which century are we living in? by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative

    But really, which century are we living in here? Why would anyone still wants to adjust their clocks twice a year, and what are we "saving" here exactly?

    People's sanity. :-P

    I live in a place with DST -- basically it means in the summer, we get extra-long days so it's light until late into the evening (almost 9pm around the solstice). It shifts the hours of usable daylight into hours people might actually use during the summer instead of it being light out at 5am or something stupid.

    It also makes up for the fact that in winter it's dark when you get up and leave for work, and dark by the time you leave for home after work. In winter there's a good 1.5 month period where you don't get to see much daylight -- as short as about 8h42m of daylight. DST doesn't fix this, but it gives us some of it back in the summer.

    Much like you can't fathom why we have it -- if you grew up with it, you can't fathom why everyone else doesn't have it.

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