Reports this morning point to some iPhone users experiencing problems with Daylight Saving Time. So far, the problems have been USA-based, where users report that the time is not changing properly.
Daylight saving time hits tonight/tomorrow morning, which means we all lose an hour of sleep —unless you have a Verizon iPhone, in which case you’ll wake up utterly confused, as phones are currently falling back an hour.
Reports pinpoint the problem to Verizon iPhones, but updated reports say some AT&T iPhones may be affected as well.
With the DST change this morning, are you experiencing time problems with your iPhone? If so, post your experience below:
iPhone Model:
Firmware:
Carrier:
Update 1: Some users are reporting issues on Bell and Rogers. Fido users seem to be unaffected. No word yet on Telus.
Update 2: It now seems that affected users are sporadic and from all carriers.
Update 3: Some users have found a fix if you’re experiencing the problem:
1.) Navigate to Settings > General > Date & Time and toggle Off “Set Automatically”. Set your local city.
2.) Toggle “Set Automatically” back On and restart the iPhone.
[Mashable]
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No problem with my Rogers iPhone 4. Oh ya, I have clocks in the house and a watch too so it’s not like my iPhone would have made me late. Just sayin’
Working fine on my iPhone 4, running 4.3 on Rogers.
Telus iPhone 4 running 4.3 == No DST issues
Also, the system clock alarm went off just fine!
iPhone 4…. 4.2.1
No problems here time changed correctly
Rogers:
iPhone 4:
iOS 4.3:
No problemo!
Ip4: 4.2.1
No issues here!
It looks like these iPhone users didn’t have auto update on
That’s why the clock is not changing
Bell 3gs
4.1
my iphone fastforward 2 hours instead of just one
Bell
Iphone 4 ,4.2.1
Advanced 2 hours. Had to re-start my phone to correct it.
iPhone 3G
4.2
Rogers
One hour behind
Phone adjusted to the correct time at 2am but was wrong when I got up later in the morning.
My iPhone change 2 hours ahead but the problem was fix by itself this morning.
Mine went ahead 2 hours! (Bell)
I’m with Fido and have been affected as well. Just had to reset manually.
iPhone 4
4.2.1 (JB)
Rogers
No issues here. The clock is correct and the alarm went off on time.
iPhone 3Gs iOS 4.3 Bell no issues
Mine (iPhone4, Rogers) didn’t update automatically but the wife’s did. I’m running 4.3 beta b. She is running 4.2.
A reset fixed the issue.
Iphone 4. Bell. Running 4.3. The clock went ahed by two hrs instead of one. As i was still awake, I reset it manually.
Rogers iPhone 4, running 4.3. My clock is an hour in the past. If I turn off Set Automatically, it jumps to the present as if by magic. Turn Set Automatically back on, and we’re back to the past.
Rebooting didn’t help.
iPhone Model: iPhone 4
Firmware: iOS 4.2.1
Carrier: Rogers
It was one hour advanced.
After turned “auto set” off and on again, everything is ok now.
I’m on Rogers and I have the DST issue. Gta location.
iPhone 4, iOS 4.2.1, Rogers network
No issues.
iPhone 3GS, iOS 4.3, Rogers.
iPhone Model: iPhone 4
Firmware: iOS 4.2.1 (JB)
Carrier: Fido
No issues here in Hamilton. Set a 10 a.m alarm this morning the phone is so clever adjusted itself to advance 1 hour and woke me up. That’s why I love my iPhone cz I can count on it
iPhone Model: iPhone 4
Firmware: 4.3
Carrier: Telus
I don’t seem to have any issues w/ DST.
Iphone Model: Iphone 4
Firmware: 4.2.1
Carrier: TELUS
NO PROBLEM AT ALL
My iPad on Rogers and iPhone of Fidonare both an hour behind.
Try rebooting. My iPhone on Fido had the correct time until I just rebooted it. Now it’s an hour behind. I’m in Oakville.
Im fido and mine changed and its fine.
i experienced it but only cause i had air plane mode on
when swicthed back to connect to rogers, it changed
My iPhone 4 on Fido did not change either.
FW 4.2.1
Only when set Auto was pushed to OFF, the correct time (+1hr) is displayed.
However when set auto is switch back ON the time did not advance correctly.
Can we send advice to Apple support on this? The first time this happens.
Done that. Still shows the correct time. Yours is on iOS 4.3 I presume?
This may not be an Apple problem, as the phone knows it should be 1 hour forward when auto is switch off.
When auto is ON iPhone gets the time stamp from the network.
Bell
4.2.1
iPhone 4
Advanced 2 hours then fixed itself
Fido
4.3
iPhone 4
Unaffected
3GS with iOS 4.3 on Fido, clock advanced 1 hour. Rebooted just to check and it’s still the correct time.
Two alarms went off at the expected times, too.
iPhone 3GS, IOS 4.3, Rogers
Time was right when I got up, but then kept switching back and forth one hour. Turned it off and on again and now it’s stuck an hour behind.
Ok, so this is not a phone issue but rather a carrier issue since the phones update their time periodically from the carrier.
Dude I have had the iPhone mess up alarm times all the time. One thing I know is that you cant count on ‘just’ the iPhone. Make sure you always have a second alarm clock. Mark my words.
Rogers customer here, southern Ontario, no problems with DST change FWIW
I woke up this morning and everything seemed fine on my phone…checked my computer and the time matched, checked my clock(which was an hour behind as i hadn’t changed it yet), so all was good….then on my way to work, the time on my phone just randomly rolled back an hour and it hasn’t changed back to the correct time yet. I’ve tried some of the fixes that the Americans had posted (turning the phone completely off, and changing the date/time to manual as opposed to automatic) and nothing has changed yet.
Rogers
iOs 4.3
iPhone4
No problem in Vancouver (Telus). The phone changed time at 2:01 (I was watching it). I don’t have an alarm set until Tuesday 🙂 so no comment there.
3G, 4.2.1, Fido.
If the option “Set automatically” is on, the iPhone shows normal time. When it’s off, it shows daylight saving time.
Switching the option on and off, and again, and restart the iPhone seems to fix the problem.
restarting (typo)
seem (typo)
I talked with my Rogers technician way back when I had a basic Motorola phone that kept changing it’s time setting depending upon where I was in the city. The issues is that not all the towers equipment were using the proper timezone info (thanks USA for changing the dates a few years back and screwing all the technology that was too old or never designed to have this info updated).
So the issue is that the iPhone is getting time from the cell network rather than an NTP server (Internet Time Server). if it used an NTP server then it *should* get the same info whether on WiFi or Cell.
I talked with my Rogers technician way back when I had a basic Motorola phone that kept changing it’s time setting depending upon where I was in the city. The issues is that not all the towers equipment were using the proper timezone info (thanks USA for changing the dates a few years back and screwing all the technology that was too old or never designed to have this info updated).
So the issue is that the iPhone is getting time from the cell network rather than an NTP server (Internet Time Server). if it used an NTP server then it *should* get the same info whether on WiFi or Cell.
I talked with my Rogers technician way back when I had a basic Motorola phone that kept changing it’s time setting depending upon where I was in the city. The issues is that not all the towers equipment were using the proper timezone info (thanks USA for changing the dates a few years back and screwing all the technology that was too old or never designed to have this info updated).
So the issue is that the iPhone is getting time from the cell network rather than an NTP server (Internet Time Server). if it used an NTP server then it *should* get the same info whether on WiFi or Cell.
3gs and iPhone 4 running 4.2.1 both on rogers.
No issues
Telus 3GS alarm not working 🙁
iOS 4.1
Fido
4.2.1
Toronto
It changed correctly then flipped back at some point. Had to reboot to correct
Carrier: Fido
Model: iPhone 4 on 4.2.1
Area: Toronto
It correctly made the change however sometime between 2am and 4am it flipped back to the wrong time.
Additionally on Sunday night / Monday morning around 2am it jumped back to 1am again
Phone was set to ‘set time automatically’
Messed up the day after, Sunday night on both a Rogers and a Fido iPhone 4.
Made my wife an hour late for work among throwing a few other things off. Pretty sad that you still can’t trust technology to come up with a clock that works.