An iOS 4.1 bug hit European users this weekend. The bug causes alarms to be one hour off after the “Summer” or “Daylight Savings” time hit the Europeans. The same bug affected New Zealand and Austrailian iOS users last month, as those countries went on Daylight Savings for the austral summer. At the time, Apple Austrailia indicated that the bug fix would be released soon, but it appears that we’ll be waiting for iOS 4.2 in November, after the entire world has already changed their clocks.

The bug affects alarms set using the iOS 4.1 Clock app: recurring alarms set to repeat for anything other than “every day” will fail to make the shift between summer and regular time. For New Zealand (which made the shift to Daylight Savings Time on September 27) and most of Austrailia (which followed on October 3), this was a nuisance for people who use their iDevices are alarm clocks, as they were awakened an hour early. For users in the Northern Hemisphere, whose clocks “Fall back” in autumn, this means that alarms will be an hour late, which is potentially an even larger problem.

Apple has indicated that they are aware of the issue and have a fix in the queue, but it’s surprising that they chose not to get the patch out for the millions of iPhone users in Europe, and it’ll be even more uspririsng if they are waiting until after the many more millions of US users set their clocks back.It is possible that we will see an interim release to fix the alarm bug and the lockscreen issue this week, but anyone in the US who relies on their iPhone to wake them up should have a backup in place for next Monday.

Source: MacRumors

Authors: _GadgetNews

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