Alarm Clock - not working after Day Light Saving

J-Tech,

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Any ideas?

You will have to wait for Apple to fix the problem.

Read: Apple to patch Australian/NZ iOS DST bug | MacNN for further information.

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31 Oct 2010

Thanks for making me late this morning Apple!

Just switched to Daylight Saving Time here in the UK... and now my Alarm Clock won't sound!

Pathetic.

I had a similar problem this morning. My iMac was set to start up at 10:00, and it started at 11:00. Daylight Saving Time does not end here until next Sunday (November 7).

I went to the Date & Time control panel, unchecked Set Daylight Saving Time Automatically, and checked Daylight Saving Time Is In Effect. That seems to have fixed the problem.

I'll have to remember to change it back next Saturday night.

I had the same problem this morning. My alarm clock wouldnt work at all!! I unticked the automatic update under time and date settings and this has resolved the problem

I also had same problem but thankfully my 8 mth old daughter obliged! However
My issue doesn't seem to be DST related - I set up a weekdays alarm for 6.06 just to
test but that didn't go off either! Yet when I set up a one time alarm it worked!! Help
please.....

Yup, me too.

I'm in work almost an hour late.

I hope Apple fixes this soon or at least publish a list of days we can expect our alarms not to work.

Or they can post me an alarm clock that works.

wat a complete joke something as simple as an alarm not working after daylight savings, my alarm was suppose to go off at 8.30 today but finally went off at 9.30 ***, is apple gonna start paying for people who have missed work as well as new bumpers for there worthless iphone4???????????? note to apple sort yourselves out or ul lose alot of custom, i myself am going to be looking eleswhere when my contract is up. pathetic i may just call a few newspapers for a laugh see if i can re coup my lost earnings, seems fair to me.

Snap!! I set my alarm for 7.30 to get the kids up for school and it went of at 8.30!! argh!! but if I set a new alarm it goes of ok if I don't put daily! Can't have this every day! Come on Apple!!

ye it seems if you set the time for every day its ok, but not on specific days, like having it on every day and off on sundays. jokes but then again its proberly expected from apple these days.

Just spoken to Apple who told me to reset all settings and it should work OK but guess what it doesn't!! It doesn't seem to like me setting a repeat and works just fine if I set a single alarm but an hour out if its an alarm going of everyday!! Guy on the phone at Apple said "oh yeah its a major bug!" very helpful NOT!!

Thanks Apple, I was late to work this morning!!! Spoke to o2 who told me to take the repeats off the alarm, set it to go off and then re-add the repeats... guess what... it didn't work. This is a complete JOKE!

I got iPhone4 and got same problem. Done a bit of testing and found that this Problem is not DST related. Works fine when setting a single alarm. Doesn't work when setting any form of repeat (i.e. to repeat on one specific day, Weekdays, etc). Apple just not good enough! how do expect to rival Microsoft when you make schoolboy errors like this?!

Until Apple pull their finger out there are a few free alarm clock apps to download as a temporary solution. I downloaded 'Alarm Clock Free', simple but affective. Tested this on weekdays repeat function and works fine.

N.B. The above app has to be left running in order for it to work.

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Oddly enough I am in the states with iphone 3gs. My alarm went off an hour early and then ceased to work after that, until I disabled the repeat feature. I am growing highly disappointed with Apple. They seem to mess up the simplest things these days.

I have notice the same problem, but in my case works only if I turn on all days. Not I have to be careful and to switch off the alarm during the weekends. I have tried to reset all seating, even to create a now alarms, but the problem remains.

Yes. Can confirm this is a nasty little one. iPhone 3GS is fine and iPhone 4 is corrupted. I'm not as angry with Apple as some seem to be on this thread... But I will be if it isn't fixed in a few days. I can't help wondering how many people have discovered this new bug the hard way! Must be a lot of late people around currently. Do not trust your generic iPhone 4 alarm. I'm downloading a 3rd party app and setting my wife's 3GS as backup for now. Surprised by this one.