http://m.cnn.com/primary/_vVJeiu-ipHn8InwN7
This CNN article talks about a bug in the iPhone alarm clock app in Europe this past Sunday. It was daylight savings time there and the app did not adjust, causing iPhone users to sleep an extra hour. I found this article especially interesting because I have a few iPhone user friends who this happened to. It's weird that it was able to happen all the way in the US when we did not even have a time change. While technology, especially iPhones, is great, this shows how over reliant people are on it. They rely on their iPhones to wake them up in the morning. The good thin is that since so many people use the iPhone, your excuse for being late to work seems more valid.
I also don't understand why it happened to some Americans, a relatively small proportion, but not all, and that it wasn't regional but appeared to be completely random. Also, do we usually change time with Europe, but this year we were off by a week? That's also interesting about the alarm clocks, I use both my phone and a real clock and people used to call it overkill, guess I would've been prepared for this though!
ReplyDeleteMy iPhone time didn't screw up. But my alarm was set for 7:30 and went off at 6:30 for some reason. I had to set my alarm for 8:30 to get up at 7:30 (which is quite scary when you have a stats test at 9 and it might not work). This is very strange. I'd like to find out what the reason is, because I've never heard of iPhones not automatically adjusting...I feel like this could've been easily avoided.
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