Recently, a bug has been discovered for iPhones that when you set the date back to January 1, 1970, it will permanently crash your iPhone, leaving it stuck on the reboot screen for all eternity. Apparently, this is because January 1, 1970 is the earliest date the iPhone can go back to, and that date is the date that the Unix time began. The Unix time started counting at midnight on January 1, and it is used as the basis for the clocks in many pieces of technology, so setting it to that date is effectively setting your clock at 0. Now, if you aren't in the Greenwich Mean Time Zone (the one the Unix clock uses, because it is the standard), that would mean you might be setting your clock to a time before January 1, 1970, which would be a negative number, which apparently the iPhone can't seem to handle.
Seriously don't try this because it will crash your phone, and there is no way to fix it. I find this glitch really interesting. It reminds me of the Y2K scare, where people thought that all the computers would crash on new year's, 2000, because they thought the computers wouldn't be able to handle the change in a millennium.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/12/technology/iphone-date-bug/index.html
Okay, I'm not going to be that person that, after reading this, is going to go set back my phone, but wow. It does make it very tempting to see if it will work.
ReplyDeleteThat is really interesting and I liked the tie between the bug and the Y2K Scare in 2000.
ReplyDeleteTea Perez 1st periof
This is very interesting but whenever things like this come up I always wonder "who sits around looking for this kind of stuff."
ReplyDeleteShelby Linker, 8th period
This is so weird! iPhones seem to have lots of hings that make them crash
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