Tuesday, April 9, 2024

AirTag Firmware Rollout Date

iSoftware Updates (via Sebastiaan de With):

Looks like Apple accidentally set the deployment dates for the 2.0.73 AirTag firmware to “m/d/24” instead of “m/d/2024” that has used in previous versions and which the AirTag update system uses as date format.

As a result, AirTags think the deployment dates are in the year 24 and they just skip to the 100% rollout batch 😅

Why is the goLiveDate even stored as a string when plists have a date type?

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>> Why is the goLiveDate even stored as a string when plists have a date type?

A question Apple should be asking itself, indeed...

>Why is the goLiveDate even stored as a string when plists have a date type?

And if it's going to be a string, why is it not in ISO 8601 format instead of the idiotic American order?

Ah, I found the xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1179/ Someone please pass it on to Apple.

Bob beat me to it, although I think in this case the non-US/dd/mm/(yy)yy would be just as bad. Just use ISO 8601!

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