Well in fact it hates it so much that it will permanently crash your iPhone’s if you change time settings to the mentioned date. Well, the reason given is if your time zone isn’t GMT, your iPhone might interpret a time before January 1, 1970 or in other words, before zero. “I’ve tried restoring, updating, but nothing seems to be working”.
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A bug causes devices on iOS 8 or 9 to go haywire once the date manually changed.
The iOS operating system that runs the iPhone and iPad is based on Apple’s Mac OSX, which is based on BSD, which is based on Unix. Attackers can set send malicious NTP requests to adjust every iPhone’s time settings to January 1, 1970, hence brick every iPhone connected to the same network. I shutdown my phone and restarted it, the result is a bricked iPhone. The creators of Unix set midnight UTC, January 1, 1970 as the “Unix Epoch”.
The image suggests: “Warp back in time with a classic Macintosh theme, to relive the magic on your iPhone”. This problem applies to the iPhone 5s or newer, the iPad Air or newer, the iPhone mini 2 or newer or the sixth generation iPod touch or newer.
Why would someone ever set their clock back to this date?
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Reddit users tweaked with the settings change to report that their phones and Apple devices wouldn’t reboot and they had to bring them into an Apple store to get fixed or scrap them all together.
