Day-light savings time. It’s the quirky American tradition to squeeze out as much productivity out of the general working populace by rolling back (or forward) the clock to keep daylight in time with business hours. 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. Apparently, 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. The Alltel network bug caused cellphones on the No. 5 US carrier’s EVDO network to freak out and shaft customers of an hour of their life.
Some sort of error in the way the network sends updates to phones was evidently screwed up. Fortunately, the bug was detected and fixed in short order, so the damage was kept to a minimum.
So, did any of you Alltel subscribers get the shaft?
[Via: Yahoo]