[Swordmaker]

This stupid user trick essentially puts the UNIX of the iPhone back to the ZERO data point and you wind up with some divide by zero errors. It is similar to the errors that would have occurred when the clocks of Windows computers would have rolled over when the new millennium started had not a lot of work been done to change things in programming before that deadline (remember all of that?) The UNIX roll over date is still in the future, but the UNIX starting ZERO date was set at 01.01.1970:00,00,00 and the number of possible seconds it can count will run out on 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.

Apple made it as difficult as possible for a user to reset the clock back to 01/01/1970, dropping the user out of the setting not once, but I think, four times, and then requiring a reset of the iPhone for it to take. However, the system should have not permitted that time setting at all. That needs to be fixed.

[ThunderSleeps]

An Apple oversight??? - ANDROID PING!
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Obviously I'm an Android guy, and I'm not aware of any similar issue in Android-land. However, I do have family and friends in the Apple camp. I'll have to warn them about this.

[TheBattman]

Exactly WHY would the capability of setting a modern device like an iPhone’s date to anything prior to the date of manufacture make ANY SENSE AT ALL? What is the point?