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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : GPS clocks to roll over on 6 April 2019
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Paul_L Guru ![]() Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
The 10 bit GPS clocks will roll over next Tuesday if anybody is using the signal. https://www.marinelink.com/news/maritime-gps-users-remember-april-464686 Paul in NY |
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ajkw Senior Member ![]() Joined: 29/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 290 |
I am interested to see if my old Magellan 315 survives or not. Anthony. |
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Boppa Guru ![]() Joined: 08/11/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 814 |
I'm still using an old tomtom1 in the boat, havent had an update in years, be interesting to see what it does too (I bought it in the mid 000's from memory, long time ago anyways |
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JohnS Guru ![]() Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
It says 6th April, which is not next Tuesday... It's Saturday. Did I miss something? John |
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Paul_L Guru ![]() Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
That's what comes from reading stuff written by a Polack who drives on the right side of the road. ![]() Paul in NY |
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JohnS Guru ![]() Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Ahh... that's what I missed :) John |
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goc30![]() Guru ![]() Joined: 12/04/2017 Location: FrancePosts: 435 |
it is 08 April 2019 and my gps work correctly ![]() ![]() |
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Grogster![]() Admin Group ![]() Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
8th here too, and my car's GPS is still working fine, along with my embedded project that uses the SimCom module. I'm rather glad about that, as the whole epoch thing suddenly made me a little nervous, as I never even considered that as an issue when designing from GPS data.....Whew! ![]() Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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Chopperp![]() Guru ![]() Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1097 |
My old Go Cruise car GPS from Aldi seems OK apart from it's battery not holding up. Hasn't been used for a while. GPS in an old Samsung tablet going OK. Other newer ones OK. Old HTC phone GPS OK. Just pulled the SD card out of the GPS Tracker (Geoff's SC project) in one of my vehicles for the first time in ages. It seems to be going OK as well. May be another Y2k type non-event Brian ChopperP |
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JohnS Guru ![]() Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Brian Not really - lots of people had to make changes to fix Y2K code so it worked. Here it's looking like the code already works. John |
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Chopperp![]() Guru ![]() Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1097 |
@John OK. I sit down corrected...Interesting to hear. So a lot of behind the scenes stuff on not publicised. I personally didn't hear of any problems. There was a lot of testing & checking done where I worked. But in the end, I think most things did go smoothly in 2000 Brian ChopperP |
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ajkw Senior Member ![]() Joined: 29/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 290 |
My Magellan 315 did not survive ![]() |
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CaptainBoing![]() Guru ![]() Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2170 |
oh no! symptoms? ![]() |
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MicroBlocks![]() Guru ![]() Joined: 12/05/2012 Location: ThailandPosts: 2209 |
Well, we have about 400 of our GPS modules stopped working. The problem is they are built into vehicles and are very difficult to replace as they are always in use. Tried for months to prepare for this but customers were not able to make time for it. Now that it does not work, we of course get the blame. Oh well, what else to expect. Replacing costs anywhere between 30.000 - 40.000 euro, which customers also not really want to pay. Microblocks. Build with logic. |
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ajkw Senior Member ![]() Joined: 29/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 290 |
![]() It won't lock on to satellites and the time jumps forward 17 seconds every 1 sec. At one point it was displaying a speed of 1000kmh sitting on the table. Seems a shame to throw it out but there is nothing else that can be done with it. |
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Chopperp![]() Guru ![]() Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1097 |
@MB So much for my Non event. Sorry to hear about that. @ajkw. Does it have an AV input to use as a display for something? ChopperP |
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ajkw Senior Member ![]() Joined: 29/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 290 |
It is circa 1999 hardware. Def no AV input. Has a nice sized graphic LCD screen, is backlit too which was pretty fancy in its day. Will have to break/cut into it to look at the internals but that would also give me the opportunity to find out what the rattle is inside that developed sometime ago.. MB certainly has some work to do. |
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Grogster![]() Admin Group ![]() Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Can these ones not have their firmware updated? I guess you have to HAVE an updated firmware, and perhaps no upgrade is available... Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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ajkw Senior Member ![]() Joined: 29/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 290 |
The last firmware update I did was many years ago. There has been nothing since ![]() I have however just sent a message to the manufacturer asking for a update. Don’t like my chances but you never know... |
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Geoffg![]() Guru ![]() Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
From the ABC: A GPS clock rollover that experts predicted would have little impact because of years of advance notice has caused the grounding of the Bureau of Meteorology's (BOM) weather balloons: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-10/weather-balloons-grounded-in-gps-clock-rollover-glitch/10984806 Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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