Phone bug wakes up Australians an hour early
Australians living in Queensland were woken prematurely after a network glitch caused smartphone alarms to trigger an hour earlier than desired.
The bug was caused by computer systems accidentally adjusting the devices' clocks to daylight saving time.
Queensland opted out of the annual switchover to DST in 1972, putting it an hour behind New South Wales for part of the year.
Subscribers to Virgin Mobile and Optus' networks were affected.
The ABC news network reported that some customers set off for work without realising there had been a mix-up, causing earlier-than-normal traffic on the roads.
"I was thinking it does seem a little bit darker," it quoted one Brisbane office worker as saying, who had arrived at work to find it closed.