iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in

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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Re:Said by somebody...

[chichilalescu]

so change the stupid work schedule.

Re:Real bug: changing the time

[BitZtream]

The study you linked to makes a statement just as bunk as the one you quoted.

Both those statements are only true when looked at without proper context.

Its not like people only like to be warmer or cooler at certain places they happen to be at. If they aren't at home, the air conditioning or heating costs will be elsewhere. The amount of energy required for the person to be comfortable doesn't change, just where its spent does. What if they time the most energy was spent on heating and cooling was previously when people were mostly in their cars in transit, in which case you're just ignoring the fact that the energy is still being used but supplied from another source.

The problem with these sort of generic statements is that they only hold true if you ignore the big picture, and the big picture is what matters for the environment. 'Energy Savings' isn't savings just because you moved it to a different spot on the balance sheet. This isn't Hollywood accounting or AIG investments, Mother Nature doesn't let you bullshit the numbers and bail you out afterwords.