[time-nuts] Re: Z3801A jumped back to 01 Jan 2006, looks like WNRO

[Eric Garner]

On my units, you have to tell them the current date prior to them getting
lock.

--Eric
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Eric Garner

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 7:34 PM Hal Murray via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

> Anybody else noticed this?
>   scpi > T2200601021928383000043
>
> It happened over the weekend, 1024 weeks after 01 Jan 2006.
>
> There is/was a way to tell the GPS unit the date and time.  I think the
> idea was faster startup, but I remember using it to get past some WNRO
> troubles.
>
> It won't take the current date.  Or at least both of mine won't.  So I'm
> guessing the date/time is passed to the GPS module and there is another
> layer of WNRO testing/fixing in the Z3801A firmware.
>
> Is there a secret recipe to work around this that I don't know about?
>
> Does anybody know how to get the software build date out of a Z3801A?
> Just curious.  My copy of the manual says:
>   Copyright © 2000 Symmetricom,
>
>
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