Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices

Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by ikeboy on Saturday February 13, 2016 @04:22PM (#11095717)

I once had an iPod touch disabled for millions of minutes after entering the wrong password too many times. Turns out the date was reset back, probably because it had died, while the "last pass enter" must have been set forward, and so it was waiting several years to allow another password.

On a similar note, you could get extra tries at the restrictions password by setting the date forward. Don't know if either has been fixed, haven't tried recently.

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by mjmsmith on Saturday February 13, 2016 @05:23PM (#11095927)

Yep, this was my iPad after I had a broken screen replaced: http://blog.marksmith.org/too-much-security/

I had to reinstall from a backup to enable wifi so it could talk to an ntp server and sort itself out.

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by userbinator on Saturday February 13, 2016 @08:03PM (#11096571)

23510262 minutes from January 1st, 1970 is 2014 September 13, 01:42:00. Matches that date exactly.

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by obelisk_ on Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:20AM (#11097665)

Yes, they included that in their post below the picture.

    > NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:23510262*60
    2014-09-13 13:42:00 +0000

Btw, are they using an Objective C repl?

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by jakobegger on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:27AM (#11097782)

That might be fscript?

http://www.fscript.org

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by mjmsmith on Sunday February 14, 2016 @11:55AM (#11098946)

Yes, it's F-Script. Playgrounds pre-Swift :)

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday February 13, 2016 @05:58PM (#11096105)

I'm surprised the default time/date is UNIX epoch + 0. Realistically, it ought to be the date that version of iOS was released.

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by natch on Saturday February 13, 2016 @06:22PM (#11096207)

No programmer ever wished for more special cases when integrating date handling code, especially on a networked device and one that's so tightly integrated with other platforms and devices. And imagine the nightmare of testing the device pre-release, all while faking out the dates, both local and on NTP servers and on development desktop machines the under-development devices are tethered to, and somehow knowing exactly when the release day was going to be, possibly years in advance. So... no, I'm not sure about that plan. And I guess the bug would be unaffected in any case.

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday February 14, 2016 @11:26AM (#11098843)

> And imagine the nightmare of testing the device pre-release, all while faking out the dates

Huh? Why would you set the date to one in the future? Make the date be the one of the build.

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by rdancer on Saturday February 13, 2016 @07:32PM (#11096456)

Even if the implementation hurdles raised by others would be overcome, as I am certain they could be, this would help how?

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by ikeboy on Saturday February 13, 2016 @07:35PM (#11096472)

Presumably because it would be impossible to set the time back to 1970, avoiding associated issues.

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by rdancer on Sunday February 14, 2016 @12:28AM (#11097256)

... but it wouldn't prevent setting time to 2014. Again, how does this help?

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by cmrx64 on Saturday February 13, 2016 @06:25PM (#11096215)

Why is that realistic?

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Re:Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices by Monory on Saturday February 13, 2016 @04:30PM (#11095751)

As far as I know, you can reset iPods via DFU mode and connection to computer. It erases all your data, though.

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