Garmin GPS Map 60CSx Update - Daylight Savings Time

[BigBendHiker]

Daylight Savings Time is coming early this year (this weekend, I think?).

Garmin has just posted a software update for the GPS Map 60CSX units to align with the new, earlier daylight savings time start.  Here is a link to their website with the details:

http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=1245


Enjoy,
BBH

[presidio]

Daylight Savings Time is coming early this year (this weekend, I think?).

That is correct.

[SHANEA]

and the world will end, the Y2K doom-sayers will have been correct, only 7 years later...  I certainly wouldn't be on a plane or near a nuke when the time changes.  

[BigBendHiker]

and the world will end, the Y2K doom-sayers will have been correct, only 7 years later...  I certainly wouldn't be on a plane or near a nuke when the time changes.  

Agree!  I am planning on hunkering down in a small dug-out in my back yard.  


BBH

[RichardM]

Just wait until January 18, 2038 rolls around.  Hopefully I'm retired from the software biz before then.

[MuleEarMick]

Just wait until January 18, 2038 rolls around.  Hopefully I'm retired from the software biz before then.

Richard, what is the significance of that date?

[SHANEA]

January 18, 2038

http://www.infoplease.com/computers/jargon/E/epoch.html

epoch: n.
[Unix: prob.: from astronomical timekeeping] The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values. Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970; under VMS, it's 00:00:00 of November 17, 1858 (base date of the U.S. Naval Observatory's ephemerides); on a Macintosh, it's the midnight beginning January 1 1904. System time is measured in seconds or ticks past the epoch. Weird problems may ensue when the clock wraps around (see wrap around), which is not necessarily a rare event; on systems counting 10 ticks per second, a signed 32-bit count of ticks is good only for 6.8 years. The 1-tick-per-second clock of Unix is good only until January 18, 2038, assuming at least some software continues to consider it signed and that word lengths don't increase by then. See also wall time. Microsoft Windows, on the other hand, has an epoch problem every 49.7 days — but this is seldom noticed as Windows is almost incapable of staying up continuously for that long.

SHANEA NOTE:  I am avoiding http://www.wikipedia.com due to the current scandel of misinformation.    Many professors and educators are informing students that they will NOT accept any research that uses Wikipedia as a reference.  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-03-07-wikipedia-credentials_N.htm?csp=34

[RichardM]

Just wait until January 18, 2038 rolls around.  Hopefully I'm retired from the software biz before then.

Richard, what is the significance of that date?

It'll make Y2K look like a walk in the park.  In simple terms, lots of computers will forget how to tell time.  

[SHANEA]

In simple terms, lots of computers will forget how to tell time.  

Well, with the rate of change now days, I bet in 31 years we won't even know what a computer is - by today's standards.  Refresh my memory, what is the "law" - the name of it - that says every 12 years computer speed doubles or something like that.

[Jim]

Just wait until January 18, 2038 rolls around.  Hopefully I'm retired from the software biz before then.

Richard, what is the significance of that date?

It'll make Y2K look like a walk in the park.  In simple terms, lots of computers will forget how to tell time.  

Here's a visual demonstration of the problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

[presidio]

It'll make Y2K look like a walk in the park.  In simple terms, lots of computers will forget how to tell time.  

I suspect that by the time this rolls around, the problem will largely have been addressed. Just like Y2K was. And, while the date was not entirely trouble-free, it was largely a non-event....disappointing only to those who had banked on enormous social and technical problems arising that would validate their irrational fears. I know two people who were so convinced that anarchy would result on Y2K they went to extraordinary lengths to 'prepare'.

I went camping in Big Bend. They could not believe that I didn't believe the end was near. Guess they were wrong. I had fun, they cowered in fear.

While Y2K got a lot of press as the date approached, the people who needed to be working on the issue started way before the problem became a media event. My insurance company notified policy holders as early as 1982 that Y2K would be an issue for computers and they already were working on ensuring the date problem did not affect operations.

[homerboy2u]

My brother in law , was a Y2k drafted for emergency services in the state. He always said that the service company were having a field day with all the havock the media was causing.

   I never paid attention, everything was , is and will be   O.K. :!:

[presidio]

Here's a visual demonstration of the problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Since Wikipedia is increasing under scrutiny for errors and other issues related to factualness, here is a humorous article from The Onion about Wikipedia some may find of interest.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

[presidio]

Refresh my memory, what is the "law" - the name of it - that says every 12 years computer speed doubles or something like that.

You are referring to Moore's Law that says transistor density on processors will double every 18 months. It has held remarkably true since postulated and also pretty well applies to storage devices also....with Seagate's new 750 GB drive, a terabyte drive is probably soon to debut. Anybody still using a 360kb 5.25" floppy? Should be able to sell them for a premium on eBay in about 20 years.

[BigBendHiker]

You are referring to Moore's Law that says transistor density on processors will double every 18 months. It has held remarkably true since postulated and also pretty well applies to storage devices also....with Seagate's new 750 GB drive, a terabyte drive is probably soon to debut. Anybody still using a 360kb 5.25" floppy? Should be able to sell them for a premium on eBay in about 20 years.

Here is a good article on Moore's Law:

http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw/index.htm


BBH