Don’t fall for this hoax: Setting your iPhone’s date to Jan 1, 1970 will destroy it

Apple iPhones, iPad and other iOS devices are vulnerable to the Jan 1, 1970 date bug. (Source: Reuters)
After Error 53, and the website link that causes Safari to crash, Apple iPhone and other iOS users have another possible problem to watch out for. Resetting the date to January 1, 1970 in iPhones, iPads and iPods running iOS 8 and above, will cause these to get permanently bricked.
A Reddit thread discussion has highlighted the issue and based on the discussion quite a people appeared to