Apple - Unix glitch / "troll"

[Reality]

Manually setting the date of your iPhone or iPad to 1 January 1970, or tricking your friends into doing it, will cause it to get permanently stuck while trying to boot back up if it’s switched off.

The bug within Apple’s date and time settings within iOS causes such an issue that users are reporting that the fail-safe restore techniques using iTunes are not able to repair the problem.

The date bug affects iPhones, iPads and iPod touches with 64-bit processors running iOS 8 or iOS 9, including the iPhone 5S or newer, the iPad Air, iPad mini 2 or the 2015 sixth generation iPod touch or newer.

The precise cause of the issue has not been confirmed, although speculation points to the way iOS stores date and time formats meaning that 1 January 1970 is stored as a value of zero or less than zero, causing every other process that requires the time stamp to fail.

Obviously, it seems so legit... considering Apple didn't even exist until 1976(ish)...
So the basic thing is don't do it no matter what you're told, some people on Habbo are telling people to do it for a free £15 gift card, or some are saying it will give u the Apple Retro Logo.

Full link to the article can be found here

[xxMATTGxx]

I can't believe some people actually think they will get free stuff by changing their date/time on a device lmfao - The world we live in.

Anyway, enjoy this video about why it happens:

[Empired]

Interesting. I can't believe people would fall for this by being promised free stuff though. Like, fair enough if you're being told you can get the retro logo because that's fairly mundane but how many times do people have to be told that if it's too good to be true it definitely isn't true?

[dbgtz]

Isn't 1st Jan 1970 where computer clocks "begin", so in theory this could brick anything?

[Cerys]

Gotta be stupid to fall for that. ..

[xxMATTGxx]

Isn't 1st Jan 1970 where computer clocks "begin", so in theory this could brick anything?

Pretty much I believe, that's what the video was explaining in simple terms on why it happens.