Summer Time in British English also known as Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of temporarily setting clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less.
A bug from this daylight saving time, affecting Apple iPhone handset alarm. The bug has hit after clocks went back one hour at the weekend.
The issue means that although the phone’s clock will automatically step back one hour to account for daylight saving time, the alarm sticks to its previous time.As a result lots of people getting up an hour late. Twitter is full of reports of the bug this morning, and our own Mobile Editor, Matt Brian was affected too.
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Engadget said that the bug was first detected when Australia’s clocks changed at start of October. It’s a little surprising that no fix was pushed out in the following weeks.
To solve this problem we can use these solution at least till Apple updates iOS.
Set the alarm an hour early
Set the alarm to repeat “everyday” or “never” (both work)
The following alarms are not affected by the DST bug:
An alarm that doesn’t repeat (repeat set to “never”)
