No, this is 100% Apple's fault.... It is not unreasonable to think that people might for some reason set the "wrong" date on their phone. And if doing so is going to cause the system to freeze, then there should have been a mechanism to prevent users from setting illegal dates. Or at least a warning. People are curious and do little experiments. Sometimes they discover great things. Sometimes they discover problems. Yes, the user bears some responsibility, but after the bru-ha-ha of Y2K, I reasonably expect that ALL modern computer systems have been hardened against these sorts of problems. This issue really undermines my confidence in Apple.
What's a valid logical reason to change date to 1970?
jungmark said: What's a valid logical reason to change date to 1970?
Okay, last time I tried to check what day of the week it was on a particular date a couple years ago, I had to endlessly scroll back thru the calendar to find it. Suppose I wanted to find out what day of the week I was born? It could come up in conversation and is a reasonable thing to wonder. Based upon my prior experience, the first thing I would do instead of scrolling back one month at a time for decades, is just to change the date of my phone, so that "today" appeared to be 50 years ago. Then we're only one restart (for whatever reason) from killing the phone.
You asked for a reason. Yes, there are other ways to skin the cat, but this is one way. No software engineer in his or her right mind should allow a "Y2K-type bug" to exist in their code, especially in a very common OS. Someone should be fired for this oversight, it is really very major, even though the individual consequence is minor. What ELSE did this sloppy programmer leave in the code? A backdoor for the NSA, perhaps?
PS: It's arrogant and insulting that you should expect a "valid logical reason" for a person to change the date of their phone. People are allowed to do illogical things. It's called freedom. And if it was so terribly critical that nobody change the date (as it seems to be), the date should be fixed and unchangeable by the user.
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You asked for a reason. Yes, there are other ways to skin the cat, but this is one way. No software engineer in his or her right mind should allow a "Y2K-type bug" to exist in their code, especially in a very common OS. Someone should be fired for this oversight, it is really very major, even though the individual consequence is minor. What ELSE did this sloppy programmer leave in the code? A backdoor for the NSA, perhaps?
PS: It's arrogant and insulting that you should expect a "valid logical reason" for a person to change the date of their phone. People are allowed to do illogical things. It's called freedom. And if it was so terribly critical that nobody change the date (as it seems to be), the date should be fixed and unchangeable by the user.