First the reception was blocked by your hand. Then the sound quality was sub-par. Now the beginning of November has given American iPhone users yet another Steve Jobs mishap to whine about.
The Guardian reports that the DST iPhone bug has hit the shores of the United States, and those that use their iPhone’s repeating alarm in some regions with find that daylight savings time has not kicked in; their alarm with go off an hour late.
And what does Apple Support have to say for itself?
In some regions, shortly before or after the daylight saving time (DST) change, repeating alarms created in the Clock app may work incorrectly.
Perhaps they could vague that up a bit, so we can really not understand what the problem is.
Twitter users, several days after the fact, are still up in arms about this latest bug.
w33ble : iphone DST alarm bug, eh? guess that explains why all my alarms got messed up. lame, we don’t even observe DST here!
Wulsin : my iPhone clock adjusted for DST on Sunday but today it jumped forward an hour. WTF Apple? Do I need to send Mr Jobs a link to www.time.gov?
Yet in the age of instant gratification and constant connectivity, you have to wonder if sometimes we take things like iPhone alarm malfunctions and Facebook server crashes a little too seriously. Perhaps tweeter garrettc summed up the situation with a bit more clarity:
garrettc : ”Daddy, do you remember where you were during the great iPhone alarm calamity of 2010?” “No son, I was asleep.”
