E-mail from 12/31/1969 ??

  1. goldrush28

    goldrush28 Well-Known Member

    For the last week or so I've been getting e-mails dated 12/31/1969. There is no subject or body to message, just a blank e-mail. I just delete them. Anyone else having this happen ? Thanks

  2. eclipsed4utoo

    eclipsed4utoo Well-Known Member

    I get emails like that from Ebay.
  3. DroidJnkie

    DroidJnkie Well-Known Member

    That's impossible. The microprocessor wasn't even invented until 1971.

    Unless you are a fan of LOST. Then, anything is possible! :eek:

    5 more days until LOST goodness! Woo hoo!!
    tommy_ed likes this.
  4. potatolover1102

    potatolover1102 Well-Known Member

    I get from ebay too! I keep deleting it and then it comes back every few days! How weird!
  5. Humpa

    Humpa Well-Known Member

    I imagine you guys know this, but if the date is a zero (or blank, which is null or zero), then that correlates to midnight on 12/31/1969 (or 0:00am on 1/1/1970, depending on the programmer).
    ... the time that it is right now is the number of seconds that have elapsed since then. Apparently the world began on that date and we just didn't know it. :D
  6. Gunner

    Gunner Well-Known Member

    It's the DHARMA Initiative trying to contact you.
  7. goldrush28

    goldrush28 Well-Known Member

    That explains the date-if it was blank like the rest of the e-mail that"s where the 12/31/1969 came from- I still can't figure out where the mail cme from in the first place. It's only on my droid, not on my desktop. Very strange.
  8. vincentp

    vincentp Well-Known Member

    Nice job Doc.
  9. Techdroid

    Techdroid Member

    I have seen it too. I don't know what it is.
  10. chippy

    chippy Well-Known Member

    Its jesus.
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  11. tebower

    tebower Well-Known Member

    Or Austin Powers. He can travel thru time with that VW Beetle, right?
  12. Unclebill

    Unclebill Active Member

    Mine come with 12/31/09 date.
    Me thinks my Droid is still celebrating New Year's Eve.
  13. wohn

    wohn New Member

    Its a problem with andorid reading the headers incorrectly, here is a copy of my header, all other clients read it correctly but not the droid, Ill try another email app.

    Return-Path: system@xxx.com
    Received: from john ([])
    by mail.xxx.net
    ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:48:11 -0400
    Message-ID: <AEB9C18D-EFB1-4F3F-977C-1A14008AE85F@mail.xxx.net>
    From: System<system@xxx.com>
    To: john@xxx.com, xxx@gmail.com
    Subject: UPS Notification System
    Mime-Version: 1.0

    I think the semicolon is throwing it off, you shoud check your headers and see if there is a weird char before the date, that seems to be the cause.
  14. SSinisterSS

    SSinisterSS Well-Known Member

    droid does time travel
  15. rocksthaman

    rocksthaman Well-Known Member

    Y2K!!...time to start hoarding the water:D
  16. jenli

    jenli Member

    midnight 1-1-1970 is unix epoch start datetime.

    this is the legacy of android, going all the way
    back to Bell Labs.
  17. esmith818

    esmith818 Well-Known Member

    This happened to me after a recent crash forced me to remove the battery and restart the phone. When it restarted, the date had "reset" to the epoch start as explained in the previous post. Going into the phone's date & time settings and manually correcting my options solved all my problems. Hopefully the original poster figured out the problem before now, but perhaps this will help the next person who has this problem. ;)
  18. mudwoman

    mudwoman Member

    I just started getting this a few days ago. Six messages at once, dated 12/31/69. Only shows up on my droid, and not on the server for the same email. I tried forwarding it to myself at another email address to see if any headers would give me clues, but that was not helpful. Does not show the 12/31/69 date in the forwarded one. I'm getting tired of selecting and deleting these on my phone! WTF?
  19. goldrush28

    goldrush28 Well-Known Member

    I started this thread (regretably) almost a year ago. Since then I've received that e-mail 6-8 times. No big deal, just delete it. Humpa had the answer to the cause. Nothing to tear your hair out over.
  20. Frisco

    Frisco =Luceat Lux Vestra= VIP Member

    I think it's a great Lounge thread.

    Just the title alone. :D

    I think I'll move it to there.
  21. jamner

    jamner New Member

    I get lots of email from different domains; but the 12/31/1969 glitch only shows up on my droid from one person. rather annoying when the "new" message is all the way at the bottom of the list.
  22. pdext

    pdext New Member

    Apparently, Unix which is a popular operating system on most servers, workstations and mobile devices, launched on January 1, 1970. So, there is a DEFAULT date of December 31, 1969. Blackberry gets more specific. Press and hold ALT, then while holding press: "l" then "g" then "l" then "g". This will take you to the "logs" screen. Clear all your logs and you will see only 2 logs left. One of them with a present time and date, and the other one will read a date and time of: December 31, 1969 @ 19:00 hrs. Why there are blank Emails reading December 31, 1969 is a mystery. Maybe there's a hidden message that Androids will go extinct in the near future. Just a guess....
  23. Bob Maxey

    Bob Maxey Well-Known Member

    Google "email dates 12/31/1969" because there are lots of people seeing these types of messages with that date. Apparently, you cant delete them permanently.
  24. starxpilot

    starxpilot Well-Known Member

    Messages like those always end up in my Spam folder. One click trash.
  25. BabyBlues

    BabyBlues Trouble Just Finds Me! Moderator

    I get this date on my SD card sometimes. I then have to troll around and figure out what is screwed up and delete it. Then power off, then it's fixed.

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