Similiar, but not exactly the same. Y2K main issue was converting dates (mm/dd/yy) to larger char strings (mm/dd/yyyy) throughout source code.
As for the iPhone bug, people are claiming setting phone to 1/1/1970 will brick the phone because iPhones didn't exist then. Well iPhones didn't exist in 1971 either and the same results don't happen. My assumption would be it has more to do with error handling and hardware validation which causes it. Someone probably hard ...
Similiar, but not exactly the same. Y2K main issue was converting dates (mm/dd/yy) to larger char strings (mm/dd/yyyy) throughout source code.
As for the iPhone bug, people are claiming setting phone to 1/1/1970 will brick the phone because iPhones didn't exist then. Well iPhones didn't exist in 1971 either and the same results don't happen. My assumption would be it has more to do with error handling and hardware validation which causes it. Someone probably hard ...