Brutkey

Keelan
@keelan@mastodon.sdf.org

@anymouse_404@glitch.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social this phenomenon even applies to similar age receivers. I have a Garmin consumer grade receiver from the early 2000s that I paid $200 for that survived the 2019 rollover unscathed. I have surveying receivers from the same era that would have cost $10,000 that did not roll over properly. There are numerous fixes they could have easily applied to the fancy receivers, but didn't. I strongly suspect it was a case of engineered obsolescence.

Poul-Henning Kamp
@phloggen@expressional.social

@keelan@mastodon.sdf.org @anymouse_404@glitch.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social

Most receivers have a "set time" command.

If you unplug the antenna, and the repeatedly set the time in six month increments until now-ish, then attach the antenna, most receivers will take the clue.

But you may have to do that song and dance after every power-cycle.

Keelan
@keelan@mastodon.sdf.org

@phloggen@expressional.social @anymouse_404@glitch.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social the receivers even have an EEPROM that stores a table of enabled features, they have a hidden password locked system for managing this EEPROM, they could have stored the epoch there in a single byte, but chose not to. Instead they deliberately made a firmware update the only way to fix the week number epoch.

Poul-Henning Kamp
@phloggen@expressional.social

@keelan@mastodon.sdf.org @anymouse_404@glitch.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social

If it is a very early receiver, they are excused, nobody thought about the roll over problem until it happened first time - including the designers of the signal.