Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London?
by MereInterest on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:33PM
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Looks like 120 is the emergency number for ambulances in China, emergency at sea in Norway, police in Guatemala, and national police in Bolivia [1]. Alternatively, maybe it interpreted "120 degrees Fahrenheit" as a body temperature reading for an extremely high fever?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_nu...
Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London?
by reaperducer on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:54AM
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I was having problems with a phone service where I needed to "press 1 to continue," but it wasn't registering. Eventually I ended up pressing 112, and my iPhone displayed "Calling emergency services," even though it's an American phone in America.
I know some countries use 112, but that's too many edge cases colliding.
Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London?
by fphhotchips on Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:12PM
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In fairness here, 112 is an international standard (I think it's in the GSM spec?) and is expected to work in the US.
Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London?
by reaperducer on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:01PM
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I guess that makes sense. But it doesn't explain why the iPhone intercepted those digits when I was punching into a phone menu system.
Siri: "Contacting emergency services in five seconds"
To be fair I was in a noisy environment and Siri only got the "120" part but seriously, why would that be okay? My phone is registered in America with an American phone number and English set as it's only language. Why should it think 120 is equivalent to 911?