Tonight, Twitter is quickly filling with reports of a new iOS alarm bug plaguing Apple’s iOS devices. Specifically, single-use alarms are failing to work once the calendar rolls around to 1/1/11. If you recall, back in November after Daylight Savings Time went into effect, we saw a similar alarm issue. Though at that time it was the exact opposite scenario — only recurring alarms were broken.

For now, users can get by the problem by setting recurring alarms and then deactivating it when not needed — not ideal, but better than nothing we suppose. We’ve shot off an email to Apple for clarification as well as to inquire about any ETA on a fix.

With the last DST bug, Apple wasn’t particularly quick to issue an update as they allowed the bug to live on several weeks until the iOS 4.2.1 update dropped. Hopefully they don’t take the same approach again.

Update:

Looks like we won’t have to wait for Apple to fix this alarm issue. 9to5Mac is reporting that come January 3rd, the alarm bug will apparently fix itself. There isn’t any exact explanation as to how it fixes itself, but January 3rd is now less than 48 hours away. Stay tuned…

Via: Engadget