Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

Wednesday, 03 November 2010 18:17 |

Written by forquare1 |

This week I am working the early shift at work. I must be in Machynlleth by 5am meaning that I've got to get up at 3:30am and leave by 4:30am. However, on Monday when my 3:30 alarm went off, it was actually 4:30...

This bug has already been seen in Australia and revolves around moving out of, or into, Summer Time. Strangely, one off alarms seem to be OK, it's those recurring alarms - you know, the ones you might set to repeat every weekday to get you up for work - that will trigger this bug.

Here's some screen shots, I set this alarm at about 4:50 this morning and wanted it to go off every weekday at 5am, needless to say it went off at 6am:

So, from then on my alarm has been set for 2:30am, and will be set for an hour early until an update appears!

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Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by james016

Friday, 05 November 2010 11:33

We could be getting the 4.2 update this weekend by all accounts.

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by timark_uk

Friday, 05 November 2010 11:37

That only leaves later today and tomorrow, then.

Mark

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by forquare1

Friday, 05 November 2010 11:41

I've heard rumblings that it'll be out on Sunday....

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by jonbwfc

Friday, 05 November 2010 14:11

"forquare1" wrote:

I've heard rumblings that it'll be out on Sunday....

It would be unusual to issue it on the weekend. Given the alarm clocks issue doesn't appear in 4.2 and Apple have now issued a note of explanation for the problem with instructions on how to 'fix' it afterward, that implies that the 4.2 update won't make it out in time for people to install it before the US goes back to 'winter time', which happens this weekend too. If they thought people were going to be able to get up to 4.2 in time, they wouldn't have bothered putting out the instructions.

Plus for a lot of the US, late Sunday there would be Monday here anyway...

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by forquare1

Saturday, 06 November 2010 14:32

I'm just going by this article: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/362506/appl ... is-weekend

Fair enough there is speculation, no hard evidence of 4.2 coming out on the 7th, but it looks like Apple will create some sort of fix to be released on the 7th...

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by fogmeister

Tuesday, 09 November 2010 08:43

Well, it appears to be fixed?!

I had my alarm set for 6am to compensate and it went off at 6am this morning!

Very bizarre?!

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by forquare1

Tuesday, 09 November 2010 10:05

Indeed, seems fixed for me too...

I did think that had it not rectified itself, Apple could have updated the Clock and Calendar apps using the app store...

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by eddarmitage

Tuesday, 09 November 2010 10:08

I presumed it'd be a complete iOS update, as they're not appstore apps. I am curious as to how it mysteriously fixed itself, mind.

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by forquare1

Tuesday, 09 November 2010 10:37

"EddArmitage" wrote:

I presumed it'd be a complete iOS update, as they're not appstore apps. I am curious as to how it mysteriously fixed itself, mind.

Some variable not being incremented or something probably...

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by james016

Thursday, 02 December 2010 10:01

Rather bizarrely, the bug has fixed itself. I set my alarm for 5.15 during the tube strike for it to go off at 6.15. It went off at 5.15 instead. Not happy. Now I've set may alarm back to what it should be.

Re: Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

by fogmeister

Thursday, 02 December 2010 12:31

"james016" wrote:

Yeah, I think it fixed itself about a week after the clocks went back.

I can only guess that it was aligned with the US clocks changing as it fixed itself the day the US clocks went back?!

Bizarre but thats the only thing I can think of.

Also 4.2 fixed the bug.

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