Days after users in Europe were also affected by the daylight saving time bug, Apple has posted a new support document that acknowledges the issue in iOS 4.1.
Apple has suggested a temporary workaround to address it. In the support document, Apple describes the symptoms as follows:
“In some regions, shortly before or after the daylight saving time (DST) change, repeating alarms created in the Clock app may work incorrectly”
Apple has provided the following workaround to resolve the issue, which incidentally was suggested by some of our readers (thanks everyone):
To resolve this behavior for existing alarms, set the repeat interval to Never. You will need to reset these alarms for each day you need them.
According to the support document, you need to set the alarm manually for the next few days. After November 7th i.e. after the DST changes in US and Canada, you will be able to set your alarms to repeat again.
Apple has already confirmed that this issue will be fixed in iOS 4.2 when users in New Zealand and Australia had first reported the issue.
iOS 4.2 is expected to be released very soon as Apple has already seeding the golden master version of iOS 4.2 to developers.
Please let us know if the workaround resolves the issue.
[via Apple]
Interesting. so as of now I have turned off the repeat. I will have to turn repeat back on after the DST in U.S.
These egghead types that program just seem to mess up the simple stuff sometimes. Do they have DST in India???
The funny thing is that I dont understand what repeating alarms have to do with the time. If it is set to repeat or only once, 5am is 5am…
yes, then the next day it won't go off unless you say repeat daily.
Their code must not be converting between GMT and localtime and comparing current time and alarm time in the correct order. Personally, I think NSDateFormatter is confusing. Blech!
What I mean is that if the phone thinks it is 5sm (my time) then it is 5am and it should not matter if the alarm is set to repeat or not. As it is my repeating alarms are going off an hour ahead
WTF, they call this a workaround, nice!
I myself set my alarm to 6AM every weekdays, turning repeat off means I may miss it one day or another.
So my workaround is: set the bloody time to go off at 7 AM instead. Happy?
nice thing, i set alarm to 6:30 and wakes me up at 7:30.
very nice…..
No they dont have it in India
just set the alarm to 5am, than alarm will go off at 6am. By doing so even it is repeating,it won't crash.No need to set the interval to never…
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