iPhone date & time is hundreds of years out

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Dewi Morgan Author

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iPhone date & time is hundreds of years out

my daughter has an iPhone 5c which is displaying a date.of Wednesday 13th 2559BE.

THe phone is set to Date & Time is AUTOMATIC but this makes no effect.

is there a way to sort this out?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), iPhone 5S, iP, iPad, iMac, Mac Mini

Posted on Jan 13, 2016 1:03 PM

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Answer 1

KiltedTim

Level 10

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Jan 14, 2016 12:24 AM in response to Dewi Morgan

That's because she managed to switch it to using the Buddhist calendar... It's not a future date, it's just not the same as the calendar you're used to seeing.

Settings>General>Language & Region>Calendar.

Most of the world uses the Gregorian calendar.

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Answer 2

AJ397

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Jan 13, 2016 1:07 PM in response to Dewi Morgan

Edited.

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