Have an iPhone? Make sure you never put this date into your
time settings! You'll regret it.
For some reason, putting the date "January 1,
1970" into an iPhone will crash the phone completely.
This is the earliest possible date your phone allows you to
go back to. It turns a gadget worth hundreds of dollars into a really
expensive, useless brick.
Why? How? The reason is unknown. Apple hasn't released an
official statement with answers to why this is happening.
CNN Money says it's "because of Unix time, which began
at midnight GMT on January 1, 1970.
Many gadgets, including the iPhone, use
Unix time as the basis for their clocks."
Videos of users who did try the date change show iPhones'
continuing to work until you try to restart the device. After that, all users
see and will ever see is the Apple logo stuck on screen.
Seriously, don't try this at home.
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