You assume correctly: the date is messed up on my camera. I just bought the incredibly rare and highly sought-after jack post end yesterday.
I hate my camera, although it does take nice pictures. It's a Kodak, about fifteen years old. It came pre-loaded with Kodak proprietary software and wants to send everything to "Kodak Share" (long since bankrupt). I have a terrible time getting the photos from the memory chip to my PC. The PC thinks the memory chip is malware, which it probably is. The camera also periodically refuses to turn off, requiring that I remove the battery temporarily to shut it down, which screws up all the settings (including date). The settings are very unintuitive and frustrating.
I was hoping to sell my Hoyt-Clagwell Universal Joint And Carburator Float Puller on eBay for big bucks to some wealthy collector to raise funds for a new camera, but alas it turned out to be nothing but an old jack post end. Now I'm out my original $2 stake money and am humiliated in front of the entire Garage Journal membership. Such is the life of Tippy.
Maybe the old Kodak camera itself is valuable; there are very few left in existence. Most got "accidentally broke" years ago. This one performs as designed.
