Yeah,  both of us switched to different firmware about then, so that date
seems to correspond with the new firmware.

Of course, the new firmware hasn't been through an actual rollover yet,  so
we're relying on the vendor's code and their testing at this point.


On Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 7:15 AM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote:

> Thanks for reminding us of this Forrest, I remember scrambling on New
> Years Eve trying to figure out what was happening.
>
> I'm presuming that Cambium has fixed this in all Post 2020 firmware on
> radios that have integrated GPS, or UGPS units?  My UGPS Units have FW
> dated 6-12-2020, so I'm presuming that it would have the GLONASS Fix.
> On 12/9/2023 4:26 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
>
> Just a heads-up:
>
> Four years ago, we had a bit of an issue where the date in the GLONASS
> GNSS system rolled over at midnight, New Year's Eve/Day, Moscow time, and
> all (most) of the multi-constellation PacketFlux and Cambium sync receivers
> went wacky.   They all needed a reboot/power cycle and returned to life.
>
> It's time for the GLONASS to roll over again, so I expect a repeat for all
> of the receivers that crashed last time.   Hopefully, the firmware that our
> GNSS module vendor claims has had the issue fixed has actually had the
> issue fixed, so newer receivers (post-mid-2020) will be ok.
>
> I've put a website up at packetflux.info/glonassrollover for a bit with
> probably way too much information, and I finally got emails sent to every
> email address that had bought a multi-GNSS SyncBox or was on our products
> update mailing list.
>
> This is a bit of outreach on this mailing list - I will likely do a couple
> of Facebook posts in the next day or so as well.
>
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