There have been several reports about people receiving their new year greetings text messages from the year 2016. Apparently, messages received after 1/1/2010 are being displayed as coming from the year 2016. Those who are affected were mostly using Windows Mobile phones, but there are instances where non-Windows Mobile phones are also affected. HTC and LG are reportedly aware of this problem, but they have yet to make an official announcement.
Some users speculated that the bug may have stemmed from the coincidence that “16″ is “10″ in hexadecimal. There are also users reporting that T-Mobile users are not facing this problem, allowing the possibility that it may be a carrier-related problem. A temporary workaround has been found, where users facing the problem have to download a CAB file. This is not an official patch, but it works fine.
This is not a fix. It merely substitutes an incorrect date (the time/date the message was received) for another incorrect date. When I turn on my WM 6.1 phone, it takes anywhere from 5 minutes to 4 hours to receive text messages, the timestamp inder the “fix” would be off considerably.