Comments on: Day-light savings time screws with some Alltel customers. Did you get shafted? http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:46:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Meatloaf http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html/comment-page-1/#comment-77544 Meatloaf Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:03:37 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html#comment-77544 " And, with more and more people relying on their mobile phone for telling time, bugs and glitches have the potential to royally screw up a workday. That’s exactly what happened to some Alltel customers over the time-changing weekend" ********* Ummm...screw up a workday - happened to Alltel customers this weekend/ See a contridaction here? I dont think 2am Sunday morning is a "workday" by most people standards. Maybe YOU'RE screwed up, but most peoples' work days" were just fine by the time this was fixed bozo. ” And, with more and more people relying on their mobile phone for telling time, bugs and glitches have the potential to royally screw up a workday.

That’s exactly what happened to some Alltel customers over the time-changing weekend”

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Ummm…screw up a workday – happened to Alltel customers this weekend/ See a contridaction here? I dont think 2am Sunday morning is a “workday” by most people standards. Maybe YOU’RE screwed up, but most peoples’ work days” were just fine by the time this was fixed bozo.

]]> By: weisen http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html/comment-page-1/#comment-77532 weisen Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:38:35 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html#comment-77532 Hi Will, I think you misread my post. I was commenting on your use of the words "freak out" to describe phones simply displaying the wrong time. That seems a bit overboard and, quite frankly, untrue. Hi Will,

I think you misread my post. I was commenting on your use of the words “freak out” to describe phones simply displaying the wrong time. That seems a bit overboard and, quite frankly, untrue.

]]> By: Will Park http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html/comment-page-1/#comment-76517 Will Park Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:33:05 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html#comment-76517 Haha, I like that - "reading things twice before talking once." That's great :smile: Haha, I like that – “reading things twice before talking once.”
That’s great :smile:

]]> By: Scott http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html/comment-page-1/#comment-76516 Scott Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:30:10 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html#comment-76516 That's pretty funny :P Same thing happened to me with an article I wrote lol! To be fair it's an innocent mistake it's simply a matter of reading things twice before talking once. That’s pretty funny :P Same thing happened to me with an article I wrote lol!
To be fair it’s an innocent mistake it’s simply a matter of reading things twice before talking once.

]]> By: Will Park http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html/comment-page-1/#comment-76485 Will Park Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:30:59 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html#comment-76485 Sorry, I guess it wasn't clear when I stated that "there were some Alltel phones in Little Rock; Panama City and Tallahassee, Fla.; Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C.; and Richmond, Va. that <b>turned the clock ahead by an hour rather than turning it back</b>. Sorry, I guess it wasn’t clear when I stated that “there were some Alltel phones in Little Rock; Panama City and Tallahassee, Fla.; Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C.; and Richmond, Va. that turned the clock ahead by an hour rather than turning it back.

]]> By: weisen http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html/comment-page-1/#comment-76481 weisen Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:24:04 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/06/day-light-savings-time-screws-with-some-alltel-customers-did-you-get-shafted.html#comment-76481 Can you elaborate on these reports of the network "freaking out" or does "freaking out" simply mean "transmitting the incorrect time?" I'm just curious, but also hoping that our new bloggers-as-citizen journalists can avoid the hype (read: lying in order to sell more) that has marginalized some fraction of legitimate journalism, at least here in the US. Can you elaborate on these reports of the network “freaking out” or does “freaking out” simply mean “transmitting the incorrect time?”

I’m just curious, but also hoping that our new bloggers-as-citizen journalists can avoid the hype (read: lying in order to sell more) that has marginalized some fraction of legitimate journalism, at least here in the US.

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