iPhone wrong time!

[Simon]

I've just noticed my iPhone is saying it's 2:35 in the morning, on Sunday 14th November!  Is anyone else on O2, and having the wrong time showing when time setting is set to Auto?

[Rik]

Maybe it's in a rush to get to the Cenotaph

[pctech]

Isn't there some sort of issue with certain versions of the firmware.

[Lance]

I had a problem too this morning. My alarm was set for 6:15am but Nicky woke me when hers went off at 7:15.  When I looked at my phone, it also said Sunday 14th, 8:03am.

Needless to say, I've now taken the time off set automatically. Must be something O2 have done to their time server.

I think the known problems in the firmware was to do with the clocks changing but recurring alarms not changing so people were being woken an hour late.

[Rik]

Just like Sky boxes used to do.

[Simon]

I had a problem too this morning. My alarm was set for 6:15am but Nicky woke me when hers went off at 7:15.  When I looked at my phone, it also said Sunday 14th, 8:03am.

Needless to say, I've now taken the time off set automatically. Must be something O2 have done to their time server.

Thanks Lance, at least I know it's not just mine.  It's buggered up all my tasks too, which are now all marked as late.  

I think the known problems in the firmware was to do with the clocks changing but recurring alarms not changing so people were being woken an hour late.

Indeed, but that didn't affect me.

[pctech]

Didn't know O2 opertated an NTP server for use of mobile terminals.

[Rik]

I think Vodafone have a time server too, don't they?

[pctech]

Pass, probably to sequence the network but didn't think it was accessible client side.

[Rik]

I'm sure I have a Vodafone PAYG backup phone which self sets. I shall have to test.

[Glenn]

It's a known bug in the firmware, http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2486752&start=0&tstart=0

[pctech]

Nope you are you setting it wrong

Apple Live Different 

[Simon]

It's not the alarm that's the problem, Glenn.  The time and date is totally wrong, but only when set to Auto.  

[Lance]

Didn't know O2 opertated an NTP server for use of mobile terminals.

Don't know if its NTP. Something I like on my work HTC phone is that when I go abroad it automatically sets the time to the right timezone.

[pctech]

I have endeavoured to study the standards for GSM and W-CDMA but everything is described in so much detail I suspect I'd be too old to care by the time I'd finished.

[Rik]

I already am.

[pctech]

 

[zappaDPJ]

This actually quite a serious bug and might well explain why my daughter who lives by her iPhone is been running late for things this week.

More here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8101945/Apple-iPhone-4-alarm-clock-bug-makes-scores-late-for-work.html

[Steve]

Bit late on this one my iPhone 3 gs 4.01 is at the correct time set on auto , whether is was wrong earlier I've no idea. I always let previous phones on 02 pick up the network time automatically.

[Rik]

This actually quite a serious bug and might well explain why my daughter who lives by her iPhone is been running late for things this week.

More here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8101945/Apple-iPhone-4-alarm-clock-bug-makes-scores-late-for-work.html

Very careless programming, even Microsoft manages to get the clock changes right.

[pctech]

Bit of a weak excuse for being late isn't it?

Oh yeah sorry boss I'm late because my mobile time was wrong.

I use my TV with a manually set clock plus a radio to make sure I get up.

[Glenn]

I use one of these strange devices, I believe they are called alarm clocks. 

[Simon]

Seems to be a problem with 4.1, but I don't know why it's only manifested today.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2592937

Bloody thing!  First it won't make phone calls, now it can't tell the time!  

[Rik]

That's the curious thing, isn't it. The clocks changed 10 days ago.

[Simon]

Indeed, and it's been right since then, till this afternoon.