Re: [gpsd-users] Future date?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Greger Gimseus <address@hidden>:
> G'day folks!
> So, after running my ntpd with a PPS GPS flawlessly for 1.5 years we
> recently had a power outage so the computer rebooted.
> After the reboot gpsd refuse to run with the message "gpsd:WARN:
> date more than a year in the future!" in debugging...
> (attaching more log at the bottom)
> 
> However both the local clock and hardware clock are synced...
> 
> rfelektronik ~ # hwclock -w --localtime
> rfelektronik ~ # hwclock -r && date
> Sun Apr 14 21:20:37 2013  -0.464261 seconds
> Sun Apr 14 21:20:37 CEST 2013
> rfelektronik ~ #
> 
> So, just which date is in the future and how can I correct this?
> 
> Cheers
> //Greg
> 
> gpsd:INFO: Satellite Tracking Status: Ch  0 PRN   2 Res 0 Acq 1 Eph
> 2 SNR 40.7 LMT 69568.2891 El 43.4 Az  85.1
> gpsd:INFO: Satellite Tracking Status: Ch  1 PRN  14 Res 0 Acq 2 Eph
> 2 SNR 24.6 LMT 69568.2891 El 14.9 Az 242.9
> gpsd:INFO: Satellite Tracking Status: Ch  2 PRN   4 Res 0 Acq 1 Eph
> 2 SNR 40.7 LMT 69568.2891 El 23.7 Az  44.4
> gpsd:INFO: Satellite Tracking Status: Ch  3 PRN  10 Res 0 Acq 2 Eph
> 0 SNR  0.0 LMT 69568.2891 El  8.3 Az  69.1
> gpsd:INFO: Satellite Tracking Status: Ch  4 PRN  31 Res 0 Acq 1 Eph
> 2 SNR 33.7 LMT 69568.2891 El 39.5 Az 301.5
> gpsd:INFO: Satellite Tracking Status: Ch  5 PRN  25 Res 0 Acq 1 Eph
> 2 SNR 35.3 LMT 69568.2891 El 82.5 Az 169.9
> gpsd:INFO: Satellite Tracking Status: Ch  6 PRN  12 Res 0 Acq 1 Eph
> 2 SNR 42.8 LMT 69568.2891 El 49.2 Az 111.2
> gpsd:INFO: Satellite Tracking Status: Ch  7 PRN  29 Res 0 Acq 1 Eph
> 2 SNR 41.7 LMT 69568.2891 El 45.2 Az 218.7
> gpsd:INFO: CSP 69569000 1736 16 28 710557085 209301656 50707 0 0 0
> gpsd:WARN: date more than a year in the future!
> gpsd:INFO: CSP 69570000 1736 16 28 710557081 209301660 50707 0 0 0
> gpsd:WARN: date more than a year in the future!
> gpsd:INFO: CSP 69571000 1736 16 28 710557077 209301664 50707 0 0 0
> gpsd:WARN: date more than a year in the future!
> gpsd:INFO: GPS Time 69571.242188 1736 16.000000
> gpsd:INFO: Machine ID 5a 02 01
> gpsd:INFO: CSP 69572000 1736 16 28 710557074 209301668 50707 0 0 0
> gpsd:WARN: date more than a year in the future!
> gpsd:INFO: CSP 69573000 1736 16 28 710557070 209301672 50707 0 0 0
> gpsd:WARN: date more than a year in the future!

The bad date it thinks it's seeing is in the CSP from your TSIP device.
Was your power outage associated with a lighting strike?  It is just possible
that your receiver got damaged by a current surge.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>