I set an alarm for 2:30am during spring forward

[swimboy]

What do you think happened?

9 votes, 1 pass | Time left: 1 days, 50 minutes
	Alarm sounded at 3:00am
	0 (0%)
	Alarm sounded at 3:30am
	2 (22%)
	No alarm sounded
	3 (33%)
	Divided by zero, opening an inter-dimensional portal
	4 (44%)
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[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. Alarm sounded at 230 of course

[underpants]

2. On a clock or a phone?

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[swimboy]

3. On iPhone

It automatically and instantly resets

[underpants]

7. 2:30

[Jeebo]

4. You need to add an option.

The missing option is what happened.

Is your clock one of the digital ones that automatically sets itself on daylight saving time?

If it is, it got to 2 a.m., sprang forward to 3 a.m.., and because it never was 2:30 a.m., the alarm never rang. However, it might have rung the next time it was 2:30 a.m., during the wee hours Monday.

If your clock is one of the old-fashioned spring-driven wind-up clocks, the alarm rang at 2:30 a.m. standard time. It had to be "sprung forward" to daylight time manually.

— Ron

[surrealAmerican]

5. Do you have to wait until October?

Maybe it will sound in the extra hour going back to standard time.

[Iggo]

6. Clock skipped right past it because that hour doesn't exist today.

[swimboy]

8. The alarm sounded at 3:30

I was curious how the phone would process the task when 2:30am did not occur on that date.

My conjecture is that the phone decided to wake me two-and-a-half hours after midnight.

I think that was a fair call.