{"id":619022,"date":"2010-01-03T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5439093"},"modified":"2010-01-03T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:30:00","slug":"time-traveling-windows-mobile-year-2016-texts-are-a-bug-not-a-feature-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/619022","title":{"rendered":"Time-Traveling Windows Mobile Year 2016 Texts Are a Bug, Not a Feature [Bugs]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/thumb160x_screenshot1bf-287x480.jpg?w=158\" class=\"left image158\"  \/>Sorry to burst your warp bubble, bucko, but that text message you received the other day from a cellphone user in the year 2016 was just some stupid bug.<\/p>\n<p>According to non-official sources (MS has yet to comment), some mobile users are receiving text messages sent after 1\/1\/2010 dated as though they were sent from the future, specifically 1\/1\/2016.<\/p>\n<p>The latest reports state the most widely-affected user group are those using <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #windowsmobile\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/windowsmobile\/\">Windows Mobile<\/a> 6.1 and 6.5. The folks at WMExperts have posted a homemade .cab file that purportedly fixes the bug, but again, nothing official from MS or handset manufacturers just yet. 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According to non-official sources (MS has yet to comment), some mobile users are receiving text messages sent after 1\/1\/2010 dated as though they were sent from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2B2e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}