[time-nuts] Tymserve 2100 thinks it's 1995?

Tim Shoppa tshoppa at gmail.com
Mon May 4 06:40:01 EDT 2015


Sep 17 1995 to May 3 2015 is exactly 1024 weeks.
http://www.leapsecond.com/notes/gpswnro.htm



On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Bob Martin <k6rtm at comcast.net> wrote:

> My Tymserve 2100 gps unit (Rev 4.1) thinks it's 1995 -- September 17, 1995.
>
> But a restart (connect via telnet and give the commands util restart)
> brings it back to the correct time and date -- for a while? I haven't
> caught it dropping back, so i don't know if it's doing this on the hour,
> after an hour, or what, but I noticed it last night, and I've restarted it
> a few times today.
>
> Any clues?
>
> I know about the off-by-a-second issue with the pending leap second. This
> one is more interesting!
>
> So far I've just been issuing software restarts. The next time I'll power
> cycle the sucker and see if that does any good.
>
> GPS signal isn't the issue; the 2100 shares an external GPS antenna with
> my Thunderbolts through a Symmetricom 58536A GPS splitter, and the
> Thunderbolts are as happy as a Thunderbolt can be.
>
> cheers
>
> bob k6rtm
>
>
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