Why is the Apple Calendar so broken?

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UPDATE: I’m hearing reports of calendar apps crashing quite severely. Please only experiment on non-vital apps as you could hypothetically lose data stored in them! But apparently if the app crashes and restarts don’t fix it: a forced restart will.

Proceed with caution, at your own risk, and report any findings!

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Huge thanks to Nick Day and Ken Taylor who emailed me about this bug. If you find anything out, or know someone who might know, email me: matt@standupmaths.com

If you want to read the part of my book about this, here it is. (Don't tell anyone I let you have it for free.)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccloc2ql091l1v5/HumblePi-calenduh.pdf?dl=0

This is the video of me talking about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Los Angeles Air Traffic Control Route Center problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYgqvapH7ak

2^52 microseconds before 1 January 2001
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E52+microseconds+before+1+January+2001
(yes, yes, it is technically off by a microsecond)

CFAbsoluteTime
Type used to represent a specific point in time relative to the absolute reference date of 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corefoundation/cfabsolutetime

Double-precision floating-point format on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format

CORRECTIONS
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