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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
by ikeboy 11y ago
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.
- Monory 11y agoAs far as I know, you can reset iPods via DFU mode and connection to computer. It erases all your data, though.
- mjmsmith 11y agoYep, this was my iPad after I had a broken screen replaced: http://blog.marksmith.org/too-much-security/ 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.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoI'm surprised the default time/date is UNIX epoch + 0. Realistically, it ought to be the date that version of iOS was released.
- natch 11y agoNo 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.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago> 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.
- cmrx64 11y agoWhy is that realistic?
- rdancer 11y agoEven if the implementation hurdles raised by others would be overcome, as I am certain they could be, this would help how?
- userbinator 11y ago23510262 minutes from January 1st, 1970 is 2014 September 13, 01:42:00. Matches that date exactly.
- obelisk_ 11y agoYes, 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?
- jakobegger 11y agoThat might be fscript? http://www.fscript.org http://www.fscript.org
- mjmsmith 11y agoYes, it's F-Script. Playgrounds pre-Swift :)