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ikeboy on Feb 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS d...

Presumably because it would be impossible to set the time back to 1970, avoiding associated issues.

rdancer on Feb 14, 2016 [–]

... but it wouldn't prevent setting time to 2014. Again, how does this help?

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