Macworldsenior editor in chief Jon Seff experienced a unspeakable viewing - up call this morning — and I ’m not mouth metaphorically here . Jon and his married woman each use their iPhones as alarum filaria , but today , the Seffs ’ iPhone alarm clocksrang outan hour early . If you may think .
The bug may be related to a interchangeable issue with Daylight Saving Time ( DST ) that ’s already smite iPhone wielders in Australia and New Zealand . In the case of the excessively - early risers Down Under , Apple told Lifehacker Australia(official motto : “ toss another lifehack on the barbie ” ) that it had “ already formulate a fixing which will be uncommitted to customers in an upcoming software system update . ” Apparently and unfortunately , though , said fix was n’t available early ( ha ! ) enough for Jon — and apparently many others like him .
Across the pool in the United Kingdom , many British chaps experienced the opposite trouble : The Telegraphreportsthat iPhone alarms there rang out an hour belatedly , make many Brits tardy to solve . The British actually call Daylight Saving Time “ summer time , ” but they also call kid “ chips ” and chip “ Saratoga chip , ” so they do n’t really get a ballot .
intelligibly , some part of the iOS ’s perspective on time geographical zone and daytime savings is skewed . Indeed , the last Sunday in October is the ripe day to end the U.K. ’s summer meter , but the iPhone alarm clock plain did n’t get the memoranda . In the United States , though , we do n’t “ descend back ” until the first Sunday in November , thanks to a 2007 alteration to DST rules .
In Mr. Seff ’s unfortunate case , then , the Clock app ’s bug is n’t just seek to ring in DST a week early , since it seems rearward too — when the clock turns back next hebdomad , the alarm system should ring an hourlaterthan it would otherwise . IfMr . Seff ’s Twitter repliesare any indication , he ’s not the only American who got the hr - early treatment Monday aurora . But he is the only one who cansubtly suggestthat I write about it .
A call into Apple for a statement on this alarming alarm system issuance — a call which I placed very , very early this break of day Cupertino meter — has not yet been returned .
