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Alltel customers that rely on their mobile phone to be their alarm clock experienced a surprising jolt yesterday when some of the operator's phones jumped an hour ahead instead of falling an hour back to signal the end of daylight savings time.
Alltel said the glitch affected some customers with EV-DO handsets in parts of Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. The problem apparently resided in the switches that handle calls or send new software to the phones. The problem has been corrected.
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Posted by Anonymous | November 9, 2007 - 1:20pm
Well, My Samsung BlackJack in AT&T network has decided to stay 1h behind of another clocks in San Diego area. I have auto update fo date&time on, and it keep on turning clock back one hour. I have corrected time manually everyday since last week's chance to winter time, but during the day it's always shifted. When traveling I always trust my mobile as an alarm clock, -how about now?
Posted by Anonymous | November 9, 2007 - 5:43pm
I presume that you have upgraded your firmware with the DST fix (see AT&T support for Blackjack or Samsung support).
Mine does worse than that. If I let it update based upon the system time, it gets completely out of sync and changes to a date more than a year away and a different time as well. I am forced to manually set my Blackjack as I travel!
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