iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in 487
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."
Sheesh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:1, Funny)
If you and your girlfriend aren't careful, you'll get Baby 1.0. That'll wake you up very early, and without fail.
First post! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:5, Funny)
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
I am sure that Apple will fix it shortly, then patent alarm clock apps for mobile phones that adjust automatically for daylight savings.
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:5, Funny)
If you and your girlfriend aren't careful, you'll get Baby 1.0. That'll wake you up very early, and without fail.
No, they're as safe as houses. They use the iPhone rhythm method app for contraception so what could possibly go wron.... oh wait.
Re:Sheesh (Score:5, Funny)
You know... that sounds awfully familiar...
Are you saying that it's not, in fact, a bug?
And that it could be, instead, a feature?
Or at least it would have... (Score:5, Funny)
If the battery had not died overnight.
Re:Is this story for real? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Real bug: changing the time (Score:2, Funny)
Well that's what we get for coming up with this nonsense that the Sun doesn't rotate around the Earth!
Re:Sheesh (Score:5, Funny)
No, rather that it's a problem that all cell phones have because of the nature of the technology.
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe his girlfriend is also an android?
Re:Why the '!opensource' tag? (Score:3, Funny)
Yep, and then we could wait for months while the carriers fart around rolling out an update for your particular phone's version of android. If they ever do get around to it.
I mean, "Yay, android and open source. Boo apple."
(am I doin it rite?)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:3, Funny)
Too late, my Desire adjusted automatically and woke me. Prior art? :P
Jim Furyk (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, Jim Furyk's iPhone made him oversleep and he still won the FedEx cup worth 10 MEEELION dollars, so quitcher whinin!
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:3, Funny)
unfortunately not..
When we got together she actually had sony *shudder* vaio *gag* laptop running vista *pukes*
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:1, Funny)
LIAR!!!
No one on slashdot has a girlfriend, much less one that lets them sleep in the same bed.
Re:Sheesh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:3, Funny)
If you're screwing android rather than girlfriends ... that would explain a lot!
Re:Is this story for real? (Score:5, Funny)
Alarm clock? I haven't needed an alarm clock for almost 4 years.
I'm sure it's merely a coincidence that my eldest child is almost 4 years old now.
Re:Another day (Score:4, Funny)
Oh come on, don't you have a soldering iron and a disregard for warranties?
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:3, Funny)
note to self: next time add "oh yeah *whoosh*" to end of post when replying seriously to a joke to ridicule a meme
Re:Is this story for real? (Score:4, Funny)
"I wonder why the iPhone bug went the other way?"
Apple - Think different.
Re:exagerated - most Europeans have a holiday (ex. (Score:3, Funny)
I'm starting to think it would be easier to keep track of when Europe is NOT on holiday, rather then when they ARE.
"yes we have 7 fixed working days every year, and 3 floating work days."
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is this story for real? (Score:4, Funny)
Why am I picturing some crazy Rube Goldberg device which hangs a snow collection device out the window that sinks down as it fills with snow and then sets some crazy machine motion that turns on your alarm clock? ;-)
Re:Is this story for real? (Score:1, Funny)
And my iPhone can be set, to be ridiculously loud, and shock me awake.
With just a slight adjustment to the included rectal probe...
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:1, Funny)
Screw the girlfriend... I can do that too... I wanna know how he got multiple ones in his bed in the morning!
Re:Or at least it would have... (Score:3, Funny)
"Your calendar looks pretty full, you've been working too hard lately.
I've pushed today's schedule back an hour so you can sleep in and get some rest."
There's a workaround (Score:3, Funny)
Just use Apple Time Machine to get to work on time.
Re:Not just iPhone 4s (Score:4, Funny)
Screw the android... I wanna know how he got a girlfriend...
There's an app for that.