Stefan Mileschin

Yep programming genii can't handle summer time (again)

Apple's programmers are now getting so embarrassingly bad that they can't write code which a sixth form computer studies student could dash out as homework.

Every time the clocks change we stick out our feelers for stories which suggest that Apple has suffered some indignity by writing code which failed to take the event into account. Mostly Apple forgets to put in the summer time or is unable to account for people getting on a plane and having the time zone change. It seems that every time the comedy programming team at Apple come up with new ways to show their competence. You would think that if you could get one basic thing wrong, you would learn from that mistake and never do it again but Apple keeps repeating it.

So far it has caused alarms to fail across Europe, alarms simply not working on New Year’s Day, and the incorrect time being shown in the built-in calendar app. Even an iOS 9 update a few years ago managed to disable people’s alarms, and iOS 11.1.2 crashed iPhones when they hit 12:15 AM on December 2nd last year.

Now it seems that Apple has created a watch which cannot tell the time. The Apple Watch Series 4 owners in Australia are experiencing crashes and reboots due to a DST bug. Apple’s latest watch reportedly gets stuck in a reboot loop due to a bug in the Infograph Activity complication. Australia just moved to DST and advanced its clocks by an hour yesterday, and this appears to be causing issues with Apple’s latest Series 4 Watch.

https://fudzilla.com/news/47342-appl...-with-the-time