Time change alert: There’s a glitch in the iPhone alarm clock

You see, a post on CNN’s Tech, which includes a quote from an Apple spokesperson, suggests that your alarm clock will go off an hour late – therefore making you late on Monday morning. But that makes no sense, considering the fall time change is when we set our clocks back an hour, getting back the extra hour of sleep that we lost in the Spring.

Daylight Savings time officially ends at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, returning most of the country to Standard time.

If I understand the glitch correctly, you’re alarm will still go off at 5:30 a.m. on Monday morning – but it will really be 4:30 a.m. But maybe I don’t really understand the glitch. Does the clock reset itself for the time change and the alarm clock self-corrects the wrong way? Or maybe the alarm clock resets for the change but the clock doesn’t. I have asked Apple for some clarification and will update when and if I get a reply.

And they’ve done just that. But I’m not terribly confident of the accuracy of the data. Based on my wife’s own experience on Election Night, I quickly discredited the Facebook tally as being nothing more than just fun.

You see, my wife couldn’t get to our neighborhood polling place until the end of her work day. But that blasted Facebook popup window about voting kept appearing on the screen during the day. At some point during the day, she closed that window, not realizing that once she dismissed it, it would never come back – and she would never be allowed to display her “I voted” badge.

She hit the polling place around 6 p.m. and logged into Facebook when she got home – ready to proudly “wear” her badge like many of her friends had already done. (Plus, she had been encouraging people to remember to vote so she wanted to show cheap coach handbags  that she had also gone to the polls.)

But she couldn’t get the badge window back. She searched the Facebook Help forums but the only thing that came up were other badges created by Facebook groups – not the official one. She searched the wall posts of other users to see if anyone knew how to find the badge but all she came up with was inquiries from other people who were in the exact same boat. She even did a general Web search on how to restore this Facebook badge – but it was just more of the same.

In the end, she typed “I voted” into her status and let it go.

When it comes to elections, there’s nothing really scientific about the TV exit polls because they’re based on a small sampling of people and they’re biased based on who was asked and where the person was asked. I’m sure that a 23-year-old student at University of California, Berkeley probably voted different than a retiree in rural Kentucky.

But Facebook, with a membership base of 500 million people – some of whom are obviously not eligible to vote – had the potential to more accurately gauge the potential results because the demographics and geographies of people on Facebook are so diverse.

Instead, what we got was some interesting insight, but nothing I would report as fact. How skewed was the data? How many people closed the “I Voted” window and couldn’t back to it when they finally cast their votes? How many gucci handbags searches for “Facebook’s I Voted button” were conducted?

Sure, Facebook’s insight was still probably better than anything being offered by network television – but it had the potential to be so much more. Oh well, lessons learned, right? Maybe Facebook can take this input, rethink how the site can offer a greater snapshot of trends around key issues and come back during the next election as the ultimate exit poll data provider.

Apple spokesperson Natalie Harrison told CNN that users who depend on the iPhone to wake them should “set nonrepeating alarms for now and reset after November 7 to resolve the issue.” The bug only applies to “repeating” alarm settings, such as those that are set to go off at the same time every day.  From Apple’s support page about this problem:

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iPhone vs Alarm Clock Hidden Camera

What is the connection between an iPhone and an alarm clock hidden camera? Well both serves as a necessity.  The iPhone is a way to communicate and keep tract of the people around us while the nanny cam is a way for us to keep track and record the events in some of our child’s life.We might not think that having an alarm clock hidden camera is more important than having an iPhone.  I guess it all comes down to choice.  The choice of buying an expensive iPhone to communicate with friends and family, even though a less expensive phone would do, or buying a nanny cam to help keep track of our child and to keep them safe within our home.Let us examine the pros and cons of buying an iPhone.  The pros are the following:An iPhone’s initial investment is not that expensive.

It will help you communicate with family and friends.
It will help you with your daily schedule.

The cons are the following:

You will have to pay a monthly fee.
It is more expensive than other phones in the market.
Every time you call your house to check on your child you will have to pay your phone bill.
You will have to rely on your child’s caregiver to tell you the truth.

Now let us examine the pros and cons of buying an alarm clock hidden camera.  The pros are the following:

It gives you the correct time and is a functioning alarm clock.
You can move it around the house.
It can use up to 32 gig SD card.
It can record in color during day time and black & white during night.
It can be programmed to turn on only when there is movement.
It is easy to use.
You don’t have to pay a monthly fee.
The video is easy to download.
You don’t need to spend days to learn how to operate it.
You will be able to watch the video of what is happening to your child during the day.
You will be able to record all the milestones that your child had done.
You can keep a daily diary of your child’s life.  

The cons are the following:

The initial investment is a little higher.
It only comes in one color.

All in all an, alarm clock hidden camera is a great investment.  Not only for you personal use but also for the rest of the family.  Capturing the precious moments of your child’s daily life on a nanny cam without making him self-conscious is one of the best gifts that we parents can give our child.  It is something we can show them when they are in their teens.  Letting them know that even if we were not there to watch him when he was able to accomplish something new, we still took the time to find ways to be able to share these special moments with them.

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