[time-nuts] Warped back to 1993

Joseph Gray jgray at zianet.com
Sat Aug 10 23:16:04 EDT 2013


I just checked by Z3801A which is being monitored by SatStat on an old
laptop. Mine is showing the correct date and time.

Joe Gray
W5JG



On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
> marks at non-stop.com.au said:
> > A Z3805A, a Z3815A and 58534A integrated timing antenna all think it's 26
> > Dec 1993.
> > What happened?! _______________________________________________
>
> Is that off by 1024 weeks?  (Looks close, but I haven't checked the
> details.)
>
> There is a week field in the GPS data stream.  It's only 10 bits.
>
> I had that problem on a Z3801A.  It did the right thing after I told it the
> date.
>   :GPS:INIT:DATE 2011,12,26
>
>
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