What is DST? (In Arizona, we don't use day light savings time. It gets confusing when trying to remember what time it is in other places. "Are we 2 hours or 3 hours different from the east coast?")
What is DST? (In Arizona, we don't use day light savings time. It gets confusing when trying to remember what time it is in other places. "Are we 2 hours or 3 hours different from the east coast?")
Wouldn't it be great if a handheld device such as your phone could translate that for you on the fly?
Wouldn't it be great if a handheld device such as your phone could translate that for you on the fly?
It would actually take me more time when on a call with a client, for me to move the device from my ear, use an app to look up the time in their state, than to just memorize the current time change. I was just commenting to the fact that in a state with no "stupid DST", we still have to take it into consideration for the rest of the country.
If everybody used an iPhone, everybody would have gotten an extra hour of sleep, and nobody would complain. The real problem here is the people who didn't use iPhones to wake up, since they ended up starting the day before the well-rested iPhone users. But I don't blame them for being grumpy, I'm grumpy too if I don't get enough sleep.
I am in Europe. My timezone is set correctly. iPhone changed time and I did not have any problem with alarm, it sounded at the correct time. I have iPhone 3G with iOS 3.1.3.
Both my macs and my iphone got their time synchronized by themselves (in Romania, Eastern Europe). The iphone alarm rang at 3:40 AM as I set it. And I had no trouble caching my London plane as planned.
DST is a tricky thing to get right. It is changing all the time, different in some regions and if you are programming it, you don't have any real world way to test it prior to the actual event. Sure it can be simulated but you never know for sure.
I think we should bail on DST altogether. I don't like fake things including fake time. I'm not really a morning person anyway. That is when the daylight issue is more significant because you are not fully alert having just awakened. There are reports that the change in time may cause auto accidents to increase as well. By evening you should have your wits about you so it is less of a factor then.
How can anybody be an hour late? Since on sunday morning the clock was set back from 3 A.M. to 2 A.M. the alarm should go off an hour early if it did not adjust!
Well, but the bug makes the alarm go 1 hour AFTER the time it was set. Who knows which algorithm the use for timing...
I too woke up late, and it is very annoying to fine it is a known bug that they have not bothered to publicise. Now if they issue the software update before the US ends DST next week, that will doubly p*ss me off.
DST is a tricky thing to get right. It is changing all the time, different in some regions and if you are programming it, you don't have any real world way to test it prior to the actual event. Sure it can be simulated but you never know for sure.
I think we should bail on DST altogether. I don't like fake things including fake time. I'm not really a morning person anyway. That is when the daylight issue is more significant because you are not fully alert having just awakened. There are reports that the change in time may cause auto accidents to increase as well. By evening you should have your wits about you so it is less of a factor then.
It might be difficult to get right, but they got in right in iOS3, iOS2 ....
I have the alarm on my iP4 (iOS 4.1) set for weekdays and it had automatically adjusted to the new time and got me up as usual. No problems here in old blighty.
My alarm clock went off an hour EARLY this morning, it's an old one that didn't change. How can they go off an hour LATE? That's two hours later than usual?
I know a lot of people who were late today because of this here in Switzerland. Those are moments when I love my ancient, radio controlled alarm clock.
In other news, Steve Jobs was heard being furious on the phone with the World Energy Council, demanding the abolition of DST.
I like Daylight Savings Time and I'm even on the western side of the Eastern (USA) time zone where it's less needed. But as a sign of how things change... the excuse now for getting rid of DST is that it messes up iPhones and the like while the original reason for not liking it way back when was that the cows didn't change their internal clocks. They still needed to be milked according to what time they (the cows) thought it was. OK, maybe that was just folklore.
More history. It was the railroads that necessitated the creation of "standard time". Prior to that it was often a practice for each locality to set their own time by solar noon. Of course that leads to an infinite number of de facto time zones. I'd like to see an iPhone deal with that one!
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DST is stupid. Everybody needs to stop doing it.
What is DST? (In Arizona, we don't use day light savings time. It gets confusing when trying to remember what time it is in other places. "Are we 2 hours or 3 hours different from the east coast?")
Same here!
I'm in Austin, TX USA and mine went off an hour early this moning (iPhone 4) however, my wife's 3GS went off at the regular time!
What is DST? (In Arizona, we don't use day light savings time. It gets confusing when trying to remember what time it is in other places. "Are we 2 hours or 3 hours different from the east coast?")
Wouldn't it be great if a handheld device such as your phone could translate that for you on the fly?
Wouldn't it be great if a handheld device such as your phone could translate that for you on the fly?
It would actually take me more time when on a call with a client, for me to move the device from my ear, use an app to look up the time in their state, than to just memorize the current time change. I was just commenting to the fact that in a state with no "stupid DST", we still have to take it into consideration for the rest of the country.
I think the lesson here should be obvious. It's time to stop this DST madness!
So long as you mean by making it permanent!
I think we should bail on DST altogether. I don't like fake things including fake time. I'm not really a morning person anyway. That is when the daylight issue is more significant because you are not fully alert having just awakened. There are reports that the change in time may cause auto accidents to increase as well. By evening you should have your wits about you so it is less of a factor then.
How can anybody be an hour late? Since on sunday morning the clock was set back from 3 A.M. to 2 A.M. the alarm should go off an hour early if it did not adjust!
Well, but the bug makes the alarm go 1 hour AFTER the time it was set. Who knows which algorithm the use for timing...
DST is a tricky thing to get right. It is changing all the time, different in some regions and if you are programming it, you don't have any real world way to test it prior to the actual event. Sure it can be simulated but you never know for sure.
I think we should bail on DST altogether. I don't like fake things including fake time. I'm not really a morning person anyway. That is when the daylight issue is more significant because you are not fully alert having just awakened. There are reports that the change in time may cause auto accidents to increase as well. By evening you should have your wits about you so it is less of a factor then.
It might be difficult to get right, but they got in right in iOS3, iOS2 ....
~Callum
Just a weird, random thought: does the fact that today is 011110 have anything to do with it?
Interesting thought.
But wouldn't Jan 11th 2010 have given the same Palindrome, at least the way the US types it?
In other news, Steve Jobs was heard being furious on the phone with the World Energy Council, demanding the abolition of DST.
More history. It was the railroads that necessitated the creation of "standard time". Prior to that it was often a practice for each locality to set their own time by solar noon. Of course that leads to an infinite number of de facto time zones. I'd like to see an iPhone deal with that one!