Time is Different in Canada
Canada runs at a slower pace than the US, but should that mean Canadian time is different than US time? If you were an iPhone user yesterday, it seems that you woke up an hour earlier than usual. Cellular based Apple (AAPL) devices decided that they could not wait until next Sunday and set themselves back an hour, anticipating the end of daylight savings time by almost a week. The issue came not from iOS or WatchOS, which have had DST problems in the past, but from a number (unknown) of Canadian cellular carriers, particularly Bell of Canada (BCE), where the company indicated that it had discovered and was investigating the problem at 7:42 AM, with the company righting the problem by 7:50.
Some other carriers were affected but more sporadically, with the problem being traced back to Bell substituting a -5 in front of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than a -4, which told phones that it was six days later and had them reset to that incorrect time. Some folks found that company managements were not particularly sympathetic to their lateness, given they were unaware of the problem, while others did not consider any excuse a viable one for being an hour late. It is possible to turn off the automatic date and time updating on an iPhone, and it will still correct for DST as that is embedded in iOS, but the phone will no longer update if you cross a time zone. The alternative is to get an old alarm clock, as they did not update automatically and avoid any battery complications by plugging it in. We live in a complex world.
Some other carriers were affected but more sporadically, with the problem being traced back to Bell substituting a -5 in front of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than a -4, which told phones that it was six days later and had them reset to that incorrect time. Some folks found that company managements were not particularly sympathetic to their lateness, given they were unaware of the problem, while others did not consider any excuse a viable one for being an hour late. It is possible to turn off the automatic date and time updating on an iPhone, and it will still correct for DST as that is embedded in iOS, but the phone will no longer update if you cross a time zone. The alternative is to get an old alarm clock, as they did not update automatically and avoid any battery complications by plugging it in. We live in a complex world.
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