Sadly, my iPhone (3G running iOS 4.0.1) didn't grant me a lie-in this morning. But thousands of others reliant on their repeating wake-up calls were woken up one hour late this morning, owing to a bug acknowledged by Apple more than three weeks ago when it affected users in Australia and New Zealand (where Daylight Saving began, of course, three weeks ago).
iPhone DST bug believed to have affected thousands – US next? Though the one-hour time shift was automatically accounted for on the iPhone's clock, the alarm clock on devices running iOS 4.1 failed to adjust (suggesting they're set relative to GMT - which in turn would suggest that if you travel abroad and leave your alarm on it will go off at strange times of day).
The upshot: thousands of alarms went off an hour late. Twitter quickly filled up with people complaining about the fault (or using it as an excuse for lateness).
The bug appears to affect alarms set to repeat; users are advised to set new non-repeating alarms until Apple pushes out a fix. And with the US set to migrate to new daylight saving hours next Sunday, one would expect an update imminently.
Apple has been contacted but hadn't responded to me at the time of writing. The company promised a fix after faulty alarms hitting Australia and New Zealand earlier this month, but Apple may roll any minor software update into its behind-closed-doors iOS event for developers in the US later this week.
For now, Mashable has five "stylish" – we'll let you be the judge – alarm clock apps that will wake you up on time.
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