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User ID: 1042773 Brazil 07/21/2010 05:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? I just came across with this article reporting a weird glitch on iPhone 4 OS: As if the iPhone 4 didn't have enough troubles, a mysterious software issue has been plaguing some users. There's a flurry of discussion on the Apple forums about blank email messages appearing on the iPhone that can't be deleted. Even more strange is the date that appears on those messages: December 31, 1969. Almost as soon as iOS4 became available, some users began seeing emails appear in their MobileMe or Gmail accounts with no sender, no subject, and no content. The date on the messages was shown as 12/31/69 (though some users saw 1970). Weird, certainly, but not that inconvenient — until they discovered that, like the poncho, these unwelcome visitors from the 1960s couldn't be deleted permanently. A number of forum members have suggested fixes ranging from the simple (just go to your Sent folder and go back) to the laborious (one user posted a 34-step process). Some have even been successful at fixing the problem, but it's often temporary. We contacted Apple to see if there's any official word on this email-from-the-'60s problem. If we hear anything we'll update this post. In the meantime, we suddenly have a hankerin' to listen to some Hendrix… A screenshot of the reported email: IMAGE ( [ link to dvice.com] ) [ link to dvice.com] Quoting: DviceThat's the possible (and plausible) explanation provided by an ATS user: Apparently, it's a UNIX glitch. On UNIX systems (which is most servers), time is counted starting from Jan 1, 1970 (that's when times begins according to UNIX). IMO, these dates are too close to be mere coincidence (< 1 hour, could be time zone differences or even daylight savings). I'm not sure if OS4 is based on UNIX but I know that the flagship Apple operating system, OS X, definitely is. Regardless, the servers that process the emails are most likely run on UNIX. Again, this is probably due to a glitch with UNIX, seeing how the UNIX clock begins with that date.
As far as Apple being glitch free with their ground-breaking gadgets, I wouldn't go that far, though they are usually very good at getting them fixed, quickly.
--airspoon
[edit on 21-7-2010 by airspoon]
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Quoting: airspoonHowever, if we consider some basic issues, even with this very logical explanation, still some crazy stuff in the air: I've seen UNIX glitches before in computers and they concern the day that the platform started to run in the server. Plus I really doubt that Apple/iPhone 4 developers, were programming its OS in a 1970 UNIX platform and I doubt no less, that the email servers that sent this msg, run a 1970 UNIX platform. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. Just weird!! "Do or do not. There is no try." (Yoda) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1043315 Austria 07/21/2010 05:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? FUCK Steve Jobs and his sheeple cult. Goddamn idiots. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1043337 United States 07/21/2010 05:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? is john titor sending messages from the past now? that guy just can't keep still |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1018066 United States 07/21/2010 06:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? 1+6=7 6+9=17 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1043306 Australia 07/21/2010 06:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? 1+6=7 6+9=17 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1018066The prime number is 7 if that's what you're dancing about. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1043207 India 07/21/2010 06:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? 1+6=7 6+9=17 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1018066What kind of math is that? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1043290 United Kingdom 07/21/2010 06:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? Maybe it's from the future? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 899040 United States 07/21/2010 06:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? 1+6=7 6+9=17 What kind of math is that? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1043207Psssst.....6+9=15 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 993896 United States 07/21/2010 06:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? That is a default date...nothing mysterious here. Happens all the time. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1042111 Canada 07/21/2010 07:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? I think DARPA had some kind of messaging system at the time, but it was very primitive. [ link to en.wikipedia.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1043375 United Kingdom 07/21/2010 07:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? they run OLD equipment in bunkers for EMP survival eg terminator 3
a proportion of infrastructure will therefore survive |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25861717 United States 10/19/2012 03:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? I had a pic on my computer that changed the year of itself to 1969 by itself. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25861717 United States 10/19/2012 03:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? 1+6=7 6+9=17 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1018066 Fail, second problem equals 15. |
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Sugarelf
User ID: 20606318 United States 10/19/2012 03:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? last day of 1969
wanting or warning is the question |
Sugarelf
User ID: 20606318 United States 10/19/2012 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? the internet began 1969 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25582762 United States 10/19/2012 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? they run OLD equipment in bunkers for EMP survival eg terminator 3
a proportion of infrastructure will therefore survive
Fortran compilers. They still work just fine. |
IH20 User ID: 5312791 Brazil 10/19/2012 04:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF???
There is nothing mysterious about it. It was just a glitch. Some internal variable used inside de software used a "zeroed" date -1. In POSIX systems like Linuxes, Unixes, iOS, Android, etc. the "zero" date is January 1st, 1970. Taking one from that you get back to the "mysterious" date. There is no hidden message, directed code or conspiracy going on. Just software glitch. |
wisc_natureboy
User ID: 25901567 United States 10/19/2012 04:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? However, if we consider some basic issues, even with this very logical explanation, still some crazy stuff in the air: I've seen UNIX glitches before in computers and they concern the day that the platform started to run in the server. Plus I really doubt that Apple/iPhone 4 developers, were programming its OS in a 1970 UNIX platform and I doubt no less, that the email servers that sent this msg, run a 1970 UNIX platform. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. Just weird!! Quoting: UndercoverAlien Mac OS used by Apple is UNIX.It is based on NeXTSTEP UNIX. We all breathe the same air. .-.. --- ...- . / .- .-.. .-.. |
Sugarelf
User ID: 20606318 United States 10/19/2012 04:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? There is no hidden message, directed code or conspiracy going on. Just software glitch.
Quoting: IH20 5312791 i blame the hardware, but thats just me |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23755636 United Kingdom 10/19/2012 04:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? There is nothing mysterious about it. It was just a glitch. Some internal variable used inside de software used a "zeroed" date -1.
In POSIX systems like Linuxes, Unixes, iOS, Android, etc. the "zero" date is January 1st, 1970. Taking one from that you get back to the "mysterious" date. There is no hidden message, directed code or conspiracy going on. Just software glitch.
Quoting: IH20 5312791 Don't spoil it for them... Sometimes it fun to watch idiots run round in a circles for no reason. This could have been at least 20+ pages of a waste of time. |
IH20 User ID: 5312791 Brazil 10/19/2012 04:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF???
There is no hidden message, directed code or conspiracy going on. Just software glitch.
Quoting: IH20 5312791 i blame the hardware, but thats just me Quoting: Sugarelf Could be. Software consequently misbehaves when hardware fails. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23755636 United Kingdom 10/19/2012 04:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF??? BTW: OP, how did your 100% proof of false flag at the London Olympics 2012 games work out for ya? |
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