Have you've noticed some bizarre behaviour with apps on your iPhone recently? Things like odd crashes and passwords not saving? Turns out that the solution might be to change your clock setting from the 12 hour option to 24 hour option.
For the longest time now it hasn't been possible to use the 12 hour clock on the iPhone in the UK. But that all changed with iPhone firmware 2.1. If like me you'd been looking to use the 12 hour clock on your iPhone since launch then you've likely already changed your settings to now make that a reality.
In my situation though I also started to notice strange behaviour with some of my apps, eBay and PayPal to name a couple. They would both crash and the eBay app would flat out refuse to store my password. After becoming increasingly frustrated with this behaviour I decided to do some digging around online to see if there problems were bugs with the latest releases of the apps themselves. That's when I found out that it has to do with clock settings and changing back to a 24 hour clock on the iPhone solves the problem.
Seems like there are one or two developers out there that assumed if they asked the iPhone what time it was it would answer them in a 24 hour format, of course we know that isn't always the case. So at least for the time being, if you want to track your auction on your iPhone you'll have to maintain a 24 hour clock. Let's hope that the developers will sort this bug in their apps out soon, else I will have to quit adding hours on with my fingers and really learn the 24 hour clock.
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