Most alarming?
Some owners of Apple's iPhone apparently got a late start to the New Year as a glitch with the phone's alarm clock app gave them an unwelcome lie-in.
The popular smartphone's alarm application failed to work for the first 2 days of 2011 leaving owners asleep, with reports of missed appointments and work problems for users, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Apparently iPhone owners who set their alarm for ‘one-time use only' instead of relying on a recurring wake-up alarm were in trouble but it is thought problems only occurred over the New Year's holiday weekend.
As is now usual in such circumstances, many disgruntled people complained via Twitter. One pastor reportedly said: "Dreaded iPhone alarm problem. I guess [I] didn't need to be on time for church?"
Meanwhile in a sign of the times, people with rival smartphones (or just anti-Apple fanboys) apparently took the chance to flaunt their own trusty alarm apps and even bigged-up old fashioned clocks.
An Apple spokesperson told The WSJ: "Customers can set recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms will work properly beginning Jan 3."
It is not really known why the glitch occurred as some iPhone users reportedly had no problems, but it is thought iPhone 4s and models with updated iOS suffered the most problems.
In fact, Reuters reported that the alarm problem was not limited to the iPhone but other Apple products were hit too.
The iPhone's alarm app apparently also struggled to cope with the end of daylight-saving time just a couple of months back, with some users in Europe, the US and Australia affected.
