My iPod Touch... has gone back in time...?

[SYBINX]

Okay, I know this is going to sound a little bit crazy and it's like something straight out of a SI-FI movie. But, my Apple iPod Touch has decided to go back in time to January the 3rd 1970 with the time of 08:00?? For some bizarre reason and I don?t know why. First of all I thought it?s got the wrong time on the router so I checked the time stamp and its spot on to the second. I done a cold reboot of the iPod and again the same time and date. And then the penny dropped, for some reason, and nobody has touched the iPod at all. It looks as though it?s done a reset? It is my only conclusion to the change in data and time. I never thought of checking the data and time in the menu at all? come on it is 00:28 and it?s been a long busy day.

Any ideas to why it decided to reboot and reset itself, because I don?t, I mean an iPod is quit bulletproof and it?s the first time this has happened. I checked on some Mac websites and spoke to a Mac God who informed me that it looks as though your iPod Touch is having an identity crisis. Did you perform a reset? Which I didn?t it turned itself off and came back on with the wrong year, data and time. The iPod is approximately 4 years old now, but still alive and kicking. It does have an issue with tilt disappearing for a couple of days and then it comes back again on its own.

Really Odd

[djdanster]

Back up in iTunes and reset iOS?

[DPyro]

Pretty sure this was a bug in the IOS software.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

That's the current star date. What time are you traveling from?

It's likely just a default reset bug. Seems like that's the default date in the internal clock. Guess its for emergency use if you ever travel back in time.

[Denis W. Veteran]

It might have completely lost all power, including that to keep the internal clock running, and so it reset to 0 in Unix time (which is January 1, 1970 at midnight). Probably isn't the real reason, but it does explain why it went back to 1970.