[time-nuts] Z3805A: How to correct a 1024 week date error?

2014-12-02 Thread James Robbins
Brief update: This receiver (whatever it is) refuses to forget 1995 despite un-powering, etc. I will learn to live with it, I think. It was sold to me as a Z3801A updated to 58503A. However: 1. The main board is labeled Z3805A (Not Z3801A) as are some of the chips. 2. It has only one 10

Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A: How to correct a 1024 week date error?

2014-12-02 Thread Bob Camp
Hi There’s a lot of commonality between the HP Z38xx designs up through the 3812. They are by no means identical, but as you have seen, they are not terribly different either. Welcome to the wonderful world of China Surplus Inc. It would not really surprise me to find that somebody simply

Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A: How to correct a 1024 week date error?

2014-12-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 3 Dec 2014 02:08, James Robbins jsrobb...@earthlink.net wrote: Brief update: This receiver (whatever it is) refuses to forget 1995 despite un-powering, etc. I will learn to live with it, I think. You could report it to the seller as a fault. He must have quite a bit of experience on

Re: [time-nuts] Z3805A: How to correct a 1024 week date error?

2014-12-02 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2014-12-02 19:46, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: On 3 Dec 2014 02:08, James Robbins jsrobb...@earthlink.net wrote: Another option would be to hack the ntp software so it gives out a correct date, assuming that you can determine what the It was sold to me as a Z3801A