The time picker in iPhone alarms has a bizarre hidden design element

We wouldn’t think many aspects of iPhone user interface design could be more straightforward than the time picker in the alarm function – but it appears we would be wrong …

Macworld spotted a tweet by someone who found that neither hours nor minutes are loops, but are instead very long lists with a definite end.

When the hour passes 23 (or 11pm if you’re that way inclined) and returns to 00, it isn’t actually returning to zero, it’s moving on to a new one. Similarly,…