Apple Iphone's Weird Alarm Clock Ring
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I noticed the alarm clock ring where you adjust the hour and minute on iPhone has a finite number of hour and time integers as array instead of repeating 12/24 hour or 60 minutes and if you scroll enough like 10 seconds or so you get the final hour 16.39. Is this some easter egg maybe a special hour for Apple or some lazy work? I also wonder is there any reason in particular why people did it this way?
A user noticed that the iPhone's alarm clock ring has a finite number of hour and minute integers, seemingly not repeating the 12/24 hour or 60 minutes cycle.
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ChrisArchitect
4 months ago
A recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093765
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