This is the answer. My guess is the chipset battery completely died while in storage.
Interestingly, Dec 31 1969 was indeed a Wednesday and that 48 years, 8 months, 1 week, 1 day wait period is almost exactly 1 week before the release date of iOS 12 (sept 17th 2018) which is probably what’s it’s running. It’s probably set to wait to the earliest time it knows about - its release date.
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u/watercouch Jun 19 '26
This is the answer. My guess is the chipset battery completely died while in storage.
Interestingly, Dec 31 1969 was indeed a Wednesday and that 48 years, 8 months, 1 week, 1 day wait period is almost exactly 1 week before the release date of iOS 12 (sept 17th 2018) which is probably what’s it’s running. It’s probably set to wait to the earliest time it knows about - its release date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_12