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Weird glitch causing some iOS users to receive ghost emails from 1st January 1970

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<p>Not long after <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/24/how-to-fix-1970-bug/" target="_blank">Apple fixed[/url] one <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/11/date-time-bug-bricks-iphone-forever-fix/" target="_blank">1970-related[/url] iPhone glitch, a second one appears to be at work. A number of iPhone and iPad owners are tweeting screengrabs of ghost emails arriving from 1st January 1970. The emails have no sender, subject or content, and cannot be deleted, reports the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/07/iphone-owners-receive-ghost-emails-from-1970/" target="_blank">Telegraph[/url].</p>
<p>The good news is that this glitch doesn’t do any harm. The date is simply the Unix equivalent of zero, so the iOS Mail app would default to this if for some reason the correct date and time were missing, as one <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/472pd3/question_did_someone_try_to_brick_my_phone_with_a/" target="_blank">Reddit[/url] user explained …</p>
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