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iPhone users not waking up on time due to DST bug
Last month, users down under were woken up an hour early due to an iOS bug that caused recurring alarms to go off at the wrong time after the DST switch. It started in New Zealand and eventually hit some territories in Australia following their DST change a week later. It looks like Americans and Europeans are facing similar issues today, according to hundreds of messages on Twitter. Europeans have it the worst though: while the other regions are being woken up an hour early, those in Europe are being woken up an hour late. As a result, many are not making it to work or school on time.
It is rather shocking that Apple hasn't addressed this issue in a timely fashion (pun intended). After it happened the first time, the company promised to fix the problem, and we expect it will do so in the upcoming iOS 4.2 update (along with other bug fixes) but there's no telling when that will be. Many think the problem is that Apple's time zone programming in iOS relies on obsolete protocols for DST.
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haha! this got me too, was late to work this morning (because I was on holiday yesterday) and I was late because my girlfriend ended up having to kick me out of bed!
Silly iPhone, you can guide me through france but you can't even wake me up in the morning!
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It's not Apple's fault. They'll find way to blame the time change on someone else. Like governments for not adopting Apple's standards for time synchronization.
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hahahahaha
We are depending on cell phones too much.
I'm using my old alarm clock from now on!
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iphone, high tech, max style, full of trivia bugs but hey no one complaints b/c users are busy paying for apps to ease their pain - ouch
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you know what, in Europe people doesn't like iPhone that much, Apple is made mostly for USA, for people like Kim Kardashian, metrosexuals, ''constipated'' chicks and mostly for those who don't know much about technology and the looks is more important than the smarts.
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HaMsTeYr said:
I rofl, then laugh in your faces oh u apple people
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This is what you call an 'act smart' phone.When you try outwit everything this is what you get.Besides people are looking at ways to get late to work & now they have the perfect excuse.
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No problems for me on the 3GS.
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That happened to me twice since!
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another bug !!! Seems like Apple didn't did much testing b4 launching in market.
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Apple: "iPhone works as intended. We plan to debug the earth's axis, expect it to be fixed in the coming months."
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