2038: only 21 years away

I had an Android phone (I think it was my Galaxy Nexus which was having other issues, so I don't know if there's any correlation there) that if you rebooted it in Airplane Mode, it would reset back to January 1 1999 (or some other epoch date) and not update until you enabled the cellular connection. I suppose I could try turning it on in two years to see if it can't figure out that it's actually 2019 if I turn on just the GPS.