January 11 in october? This is why I dislike printed magazines, they're trying to hide the fact they're outdated by releasing magazines "in the past" 
Actually, the practice was initially done to make the magazine appear "newer" than it was. In the old days when distribution was a lot less complex than it is today and it took a lot of time to get the magazine from the printer to the newsstand (especially for a national magazine, which could take weeks to get to the newsstands) they were printed with a date a month or more in advance, so folks would see a current date on them when they bought them, or feel like they got it "hot off the press" if the date on the cover wasn't "here" yet.
With improvements to the transportation industry, distribution became much faster and easier, but many magazines were already dated several months into the future even though they were getting out to readers faster, which is why print media is almost always dated ahead of when it's published or released. Even newspapers do it, but to as smaller degree- the paper is published with tomorrow's date, so it can be on the newsstands and in the coffee shops first thing in the morning.
How can you know where we are going if you don't know where we were? History is it's own reward.
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