Users complain iPhone clock bungles time change

IT'S hard enough to get your bearings when the time changes twice a year. It's all but impossible when your phone starts playing tricks on you, too.

IT'S hard enough to get your bearings when the time changes twice a year. It's all but impossible when your phone starts playing tricks on you, too.

iPhone users in the US peppered Twitter and blogs with complaints yesterday when their phones bungled the one-hour "spring forward" to daylight savings time that went into effect on the weekend.

One user complained of missing church, another of almost missing yoga. One called her iPhone stupid and several just asked for help.

It turns out some users' phones fell back one hour instead of springing forward, making the time displayed on the iPhone two hours off.

This is just the latest clock woe for Apple's iPhone. A clock glitch prevented alarms from sounding on New Year's Day, causing slumbering revellers to oversleep.

The devices also struggled to adjust to the end of daylight savings time in the US back in November.

In Australia, daylight savings time does not end until the beginning of April.

Twitter was abuzz with a simple solution — either shut down and restart the phone, or switch the phone to "airplane mode" and then back.

The glitch affected iPhone owners who subscribed for phone service through both AT&T and Verizon.

Apple could not be reached for comment.