Messages from future

The users of windows based smart phones are getting message from the future these days. With the start of this year a growing no of complaints were noticed about the smart phones which are operating on windows.
Users says that they have received messages like "Welcome to 2016" in some text messages. Some said they received messages from some other year no like 2012. Messages coming from the contacts are with the future dates.
Microsoft rep said that hey are aware of the problems and are contacting the phone manufacturers and other partners to solve this problem. As soon as a solution to this problem is provided, users have to bear these kind of messages with future dates because its not futuristic text messages but a bug found. Some people have reported that the problem is more happening with HTC and sprint network users.