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Clock losing time

Has anyone found out what is causing this? Apparently Apple is replacing some peoples' iPads over this.

My brand new iPad (received on May 28) just started doing this tonight. I don't really want to return my iPad since this one has a perfect screen (no yellowing, dead pixels, etc.). I'm pretty sure this is a software problem.

Has anyone spoken to any Apple Care representatives about this?

I turned my wifi off and turned 3G on and it fixed my problem. I have also been able to change the time manually as well. Interesting problem...
 
I also noticed that mine was off by 7 minutes last night. It had never been off and I usually check, especially when reminders pop up.

Sort of sucks. I've changed to the manual from automatic on the Date & Time setting. i guess we'll see what happens.
 
Hammie, can you please keep track of yours on manual setting? See if it changes.

Mine is definitely changing while on wifi and set to Automatic. When I connect to 3G it corrects itself immediately.

I'm hoping this is just a software issue.
 
I have synced the iPad with iTunes now, and for the moment, the problem seems to be fixed. For how long is the question...
 
Same thing happened to my iPad 64GB 3G. It was off by about 20-30 minutes. It fixed itself after a few hours. Strange.
 
Seem to be quite a common problem. It must be software. If not, Apple is going to have to replace A LOT of units.
 
If you sync once a week or more you will not have this problem but I didn't sync for a month and clock starts to drift behind. Probably software bug.
 
Instead of starting a new thread I thought I'd piggy back on this one. My iPad suddenly has lost time as well. Either I restart it or I reset the clock manually. It's a good 7-35 minutes off.
 
Call me old skool, but I use a wristwatch. It lost only 2 minutes over the last 3 and a half years - of course that includes around 150 hours of travel in jet aircraft, so it could be as a result of relativity.
 
Another time machine iPad here. Mine just lost 2 hours 6 mins. Reboot and all ok again.
I think if I was using the pad's time for anything crucial I'd be worried, but I can live with a reboot to fix it.
 
Ciclismo said:
Call me old skool, but I use a wristwatch. It lost only 2 minutes over the last 3 and a half years - of course that includes around 150 hours of travel in jet aircraft, so it could be as a result of relativity.
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I won't call you old school but I'll call your post irrelevant. The point here is not that we're unable to know what time it is because of this, it's that it is happening at all. The iPad shouldn't be losing time.
 
On another product years ago it was losing 10 minutes every hour. But it was exactly 10 minutes every hour. Turned out the machine ran off a 60 mhz oscillator. The oscillator part was stamped 60 mhz but it was really a 50 mhz crystal. No saying that is the problem here.

If the time is random and unpredictable it will be software.
 
If I get an ipad, I don't think it'll be a big problem since I got ipod touch to take care of the time when I'm not on the go.
 
Mine loses time by minutes, like 2-10. This causes some of my alarms to go off a little earlier than my iPhone. Well, they aren't alarms, just calendar alerts.

Kind of annoying.
 
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