Fix coming for clock bug affecting Australian iOS users
updated 11:20 am EDT, Mon October 11, 2010
Glitch ignores daylight savings switchover
A fix is coming for an iOS bug Australians have been coping with for roughly a week, according to Apple. Since Sunday last week, people in some areas of the country -- including New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania -- have discovered that the Clock app is not properly registering a daylight savings switchover. Recurring alarms are said to be going off an hour earlier than scheduled.
The problem can be temporarily resolved by setting an alarm each night, or else adjusting recurring alarms to trigger an hour later. Apple Australia informs that the company is "aware of this issue," and has "already developed a fix which will be available to customers in an upcoming software update." Because Apple does not push out region-exclusive iOS updates, however, the news may mean a global iOS 4.1.x release, or rolling the fix into iOS 4.2.
