What is so difficult about Daylight Savings Time? Spring ahead, fall back. It is such a simple concept and yet iOS can never seem to get it right. Nearly three years ago, a problem with recurring alarm clock settings on the day that Daylight Savings Time ended, resulted in alarm clocks waking up iPhone owners an hour later than scheduled in some European countries.Those in Australia were woken up an hour early. In March 2011, the annual move to Daylight Settings Time resulted in a number of problems with the alarm clock and the clock setting.
The very next year, setting your Apple iPhone for Daylight Savings Time resulted in the clock moving back an hour instead of moving ahead as it should have. Even more embarrassing, Siri was giving out an incorrect date for the start of DST that year. And those iPhone users who lived in Arizona at the time, found that their clock had moved ahead an hour. That would have been perfect except that Arizona is one of the states that doesn't acknowledge DST.
That brings us to 2013 and with Daylight Savings Time about to end on November 3rd, the line on the calendar app that shows the current time is actually running an hour fast. The bug does not affect alarm settings or calendar events. If the past serves as a guide, Apple will fix this problem and all will be forgiven until March when Daylight Savings Time starts over and iPhone users go through their annual agony.
The calendar app on the Apple iPhone is off by one hour
Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon. Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.
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