iOS 6 Alarms bug hits Australia An iOS 6 bug that added an extra instance of 3:00AM and 3:00PM to Australians' iDevices seems not to be something users in other nations need to worry about. The bug in question, first spotted by an an alert Gizmodo Australia reader, saw iDevices running iOS6 decide that 3:00AM happened twice on October 7th. That day is …
"Yeah right, if it did happen it would be a carrier fault as that is where the phone gets its time from and not from the phone itself."
Umm no, re-read the article. It's not saying 3am happened twice, just that it was shown twice when setting an alarm. It is technically correct as 2am does become 3am when the clocks change. I think this is more a case of a nice UI idea implemented badly. What they meant to do was not show 2am rather than 3am twice.
"Yeah right, if it did happen it would be a carrier fault as that is where the phone gets its time from and not from the phone itself."
No it would be a software fault with the device*. The network would probably provide the time in UTC and the device then accommodates for the time zone offset and any day light saving issues in effect.
Interestingly, time and date are notoriously difficult to get right as there are so many oddities to deal with (like Easter, temporary implementations of DST, and countries moving time zones). Thankfully there are number of *very* good libraries that have been refined over the years to deal with this for you. Woe betide the unlucky soul who tries to reinvent that wheel.
* As someone below has pointed out, it would appear to just be a fault with displaying a pick list of numbers when the range spans an implementation of daylight saving. Just a little bit of a UI implementation mistake. I wonder how it handles the clocks going back?
How many alarm/time zone issues have Apple had? Almost every other iOS release has this issue. Why does Apple continue to keep making changes to it. They fuck it up, fix it and then will only fuck it up again. Learn from your past mistakes Apple.
Maybe the users in Australia could use Apple Maps to find the nearest Apple store.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/23/ios_6_maps_get_apple_store_sydney_location_wrong/
I set an 8AM alarm on my phone (S3) just after midnight on the night before daylight savings kicked in. Not only did the alarm go off as planned, but ICS was even smart enough, when setting the alarm, to indicate that it was set for '6 hours and 54 minutes from now', correctly accounting for the missing hour.
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