There are bugs, and there are quite a few embarrassing and ridiculous mess-ups. This is a screwup straight from mountain view, and this is a very real problem. If you are trying to add your friend's birthday with a new event for their contact entry under the "people" and you use Android device with jelly beans 4.2 and they are born in December ... you're shit out of luck, because Google decided to leave December completely. For all the years.
Oops. The problem apparently was reported two days ago, and we may be getting Android jelly bean 4.2.1, before we know it. Because, well, it really is coming December, if Google wants to or not.
Android 4.2 forgot to include December in their choice of the month. Seriously she skips from November to January. Code.Google.com/p/Android/ISSU...
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Mike Rundle (@ flyosity) on 18 November, 2012I was able to confirm this on 7 and 10. Yes, this is a very real problem:
Don't worry, Google calendar is well and won't be able to Miss appointments and blame it on your phone.
How something as it makes its way into a production environment? I mean, Google is a huge company, and I'm sure that Sam Android team has a huge fleet of QA testers. They are simply the grinches? The latest version of Android, 4.2, has only been in the wild for four days, so it is not surprising that not many people have noticed it yet.
A lot of real note that, essentially, can affect any applications that rely on Android date choice, but it is not yet confirmed. Reported the matter itself has been "reviewed" by someone at Google, but there is no time yet on when a fix will be shipped. The good thing about Android is that the update process was relatively smooth. I've talked to teams in companies in the past on oopsies, which slipped out in the wild, but never anything like an operating system.
This is the case, there will be no claim "this is a feature, not a bug" on this one, folks.
Still, however, Apple will ship something like this? Apparently they did, according to our commenters. Best comment on Facebook so far is from Dylan Bryce: "this is their way of avoiding the Mayan Apocalypse. Well played Google. "
We've reached to comment Google and you will know when we hear something when it can be determined.
[GoogleGrinch + photo credit: Flickr]
In August 2005, Google acquired Android, a small startup company based in Palo Alto, California. Android's co-founders who went to work at Google included Andy Rubin (co-founder of danger), rich miner (co-founder of wildfire), Nick Sears (once Vp at T-Mobile) and Chris White (one of the first engineers at WebTV). By this time little is known about the features of Android apart made software for mobile phones. This began rumors that Google is planning to enter ...
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