It looks like the start of 2015 isn't going so well for Microsoft's Xbox One SmartGlass apps for Windows Phone. Both the regular and beta versions of the app, which is used to help control the Xbox One game console, are currently crashing for many users on startup.
The Xbox One SmartGlass app is crashing due to a date bug, apparently SmartGlass thinks that we’re not in 2015, instead we’re back to 31st December 2013.
This date bug was first reported on reddit where someone also posted a screenshot showing the messaging app has started timestamping messages with 12/31/2013. It was initially thought that the bug was limited to the messaging app but this bug is also the reason why Xbox One SmartGlass is crashing on both Windows and Windows Phone.
Twitter users experienced something like this last week when they were kicked out of the mobile apps automatically. On Tweetdeck users saw posts backdated by an entire year and that’s because Twitter’s servers though it was 29th December 2015 already, they jumped an entire year ahead causing those issues. Twitter took a few hours to resolve this.
The only workaround that has been floated on reddit involves moving back the system date to 2013, which isn’t really the right thing to do, unless the only thing you use on your device is SmartGlass. Hopefully a fix will be rolled out soon, shouldn’t take too long to put together anyway.
That picture isn't from Xbox Smartglass... I think that's a Windows phone, and I think that's just a text message from that date. The app looks completely different. All black, no white theme. Phony Sony troll article.
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