iPhone Calendar Bugs
I’ve finished my Maya Date iPhone application and it’s now available on the iTunes store! Hooray!
A couple of people have asked me about my earlier post regarding the bug in Apple’s date software, which causes dates chosen with the date picker before the year 1582 to come out wrong.
Before I discuss it, you can see the bug for yourself (I’ve only tested this on versions 3.0 and 3.1 of the iPhone OS). Go to Contacts and pick anyone in your list. Choose Edit, scroll down and select add field, then scroll down again and choose Birthday. You’ll see a date picker, and your chosen date in a little box above it. Give your fingertip a workout and scroll the years back, back, back, to 1583. You can see in the screenshot below that I took these pictures on September 22 (that’s why September 22 is in blue). I left the month and day alone and scrolled back to the year 1583. The window above the picker reads “September 22, 1583″. All seems well.
Almost. Look at the year wheel. Uh… where did 1582 go?
And now starts the fun.
Go back one step on the year wheel. We’re now lost in time. The screenshot below tells the story: