iPhone Wants To Hang On To the Old Year

pdclarry writes "Users of the iPhone have noticed that it is showing December 31, 2007, even where it is already the new year. There have been a number of reports confirming the problem: Bug in Clock, Problem with New Year: My Clock — shows wrong year, Worldclock went wrong for "tomorrow" items."

DateTime issues with ARM CPU on other platforms

[cwolfsheep]

The iPhone uses an ARM CPU [wikipedia.org] for its processor. I did a Google search on any DateTime-related problems, and found two of interest, one of which was solved by disabling code optimizations. Someone with more experience should look into this idea.
http://readlist.com/lists/lists.ximian.com/mono-list/1/5148.html [readlist.com]
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=9080 [freepascal.org]

Re:So silly bug

[Anonymous Coward]

When the local year rolls over to 2008 it corrects itself.

So it is a limited bug.

1.1.3

[gutnor]

I guess that we now know for sure 1 of the features of the new firmware 1.1.3.
Compatibility with 2008 !