Windows Mobile glitch dates 2010 texts 2016

Ina Fried CNET News | January 5, 2010 1:16 PM PST

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Microsoft is investigating reports of a glitch causing some Windows Mobile devices to attach the wrong date to incoming SMS messages.

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Microsoft on Tuesday said it is investigating reports of a glitch causing some Windows Mobile devices to attach the wrong date to incoming SMS messages.

The glitch, which applies to text messages sent after New Year's Day, causes them to appear to have been sent in 2016.

For more, read "Windows Mobile glitch dates 2010 texts 2016" from CNET News.

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Maybe its a feature [nt]

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maskman01
5th Jan 2010
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Receiving messages from the future would be considered a feature (nt)
John Zern
5th Jan 2010
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Marty McFly is supposed to give me an update...

...on the status of my hoverboard order.
maskman01
5th Jan 2010
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LOL (nt)

nt
John Zern
5th Jan 2010
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Add point of sale terminal, ouch.

Could get expensive:

"Welcome to 2016: Eftpos glitch spreads
...
The impact of the date-related glitch is wider than initially
reported and involves a number of electronic payment
systems around the world, including those German banks
Postbank and Commerzbank, according to reports.
..."
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/enterprise/welcome-
to-2016-eftpos-glitch-spreads-20100105-lr98.html
Richard Flude
5th Jan 2010
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WinMo just past its Use-Before date

When they created Windows Mobile, the developers never expected it to be still used 16 years later.

Well, it started as Windows CE. Software programming got underway in 1994, and it was released 2 years later in 1996.

I think they probably used a 16-bit integer for the date. That allows them to cover a time-span of 16 years. So, if this was set in 1994, and now it's 2010...

I think Windows Mobile just went past its Use-By date.
gjafg
6th Jan 2010
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or may be it is a typo.

2010 and 2016 looks more a typo.
If was a limitating then the date will return a past time, for example 1996 or even worst, a negative date.
magallanes
6th Jan 2010
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RE: Windows Mobile glitch dates 2010 texts 2016

Did not happen to me. My HTC TyTN with WinMo 6.0 still reports the date as 2010.
RAMChYLD
6th Jan 2010
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