Enjoying the new movie rentals from the iTunes Store through iTunes 7.6? Wish you had more than a 24-hour viewing window once you've started watching? (Hey, sometimes really frequent bathroom breaks are just unavoidable!) As it turns out, there is a way....

Gizmodo has confirmed that by fiddling with your system's date/time settings you can wrangle years of extra time out of the arrangement.

Take your system into the future (but not too far) before you click play for the first time, which starts the 24-hour clock. Then come back to the present. We did this with the second movie we rented, playing it for the first time in 2009. We came back to 2008, and now we have a whole year to watch it. This method obviously doesn't require as much careful time-shifting back and forth to extend your movies' life span as it does if you start playing around after you've started the 24-hour countdown.