SMS Messages with the wrong date

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R Richard Baker 3 years 6 months ago
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There is an issue with Microsoft WM 6.1 that has SMS messages arriving with a date reflecting 2016 instead of 2010. Below is a CNet article on this issue. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10425455-56.html

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J Jon Preedy

I could be wrong, but I understood that this only affected some builds of 6.1 and 6.5, and even seemed to be telco-related in some cases... it certainly wasn't widespread. There is a suggestion that it comes from the date ticking over into Jan 1, 2010 (ie 010110) being mis-interpreted at a ROM level as binary for 16... Either way, the same problem has affected some Australian EFTPOS terminals. Good further reading here and here.

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