So back to the topic at hand: has anybody seen any info on why this happened. The DST-related alarm glitches are pretty easy to understand, but as a programmer I wonder what perfect storm of complications causes alarms to stop working for a three day period at the beginning of 2010. There is nothing special about the unix time value (though maybe in 2038 there will be) and looking at the struct used in c's time.h, there is nothing special about this time period, either. Any clues out there?

The fact that we don't know, and probably will never know, is the reason I like open source, and why iPhone (and WinMo) will always suck compared to my maemo pocket cinderblock (and, I guess, Android as well).