asked 2016-02-12 08:12:28 +0200
Hello!
I Readed this news IOS 1 jan 1970.
Why in the date and time settings, such as selected in 1920?
The date and time is not less than the selected January 1, 1970 year.
answered 2016-02-12 14:48:45 +0200
iOS (as well as all Linuxes) use a thing called Unix time (look it up on Wikipedia). It works by counting the seconds that have passed since 00:00 (UTC) 1.1.1970. This way every system can have the same time in an easy format (a natural number) without timezone or cultural issues.
The current time as I write this is about 1455224300 (seconds since the start of 1970)
Okay, I'll post it as comment on the question as I am not sure.
jollailija ( 2016-02-12 15:13:16 +0200 )editAsked: 2016-02-12 08:12:28 +0200
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Simple English translation:
Title: Why can't 1920 be set as the current date in Date and time settings?
Question:
Hello!
I read this news article (link to said article).
Why can't a year earlier than 1970 (such as 1920) be selected under Date and time settings?
The earliest selectable date is 1.1.1970.
jollailija ( 2016-02-12 15:16:57 +0200 )editThank you @jollailija for your translation :)
I'm more curios why there is a choice til 1920 year(in GUI), if only 1970 year and later can be used in settings?
Jfish ( 2016-02-12 16:56:21 +0200 )editWhat happens when you select it? You get an error, or nothing happen?
Sthocs ( 2016-02-12 22:30:08 +0200 )edit@Sthocs nothing happen.
Jfish ( 2016-02-13 06:56:52 +0200 )editOkay, I misunderstood your question. Maybe Jolla supports negative timestamps so you can set your birthdays?
jollailija ( 2016-02-13 09:46:44 +0200 )edit