Remember the Millennium Bug? That ‘huge’ problem that would shut down the entire world on January 1, 2000, and ultimately turned out to be insignificant. Honda is not bothered by the digital plague animal, because on January 1, 2022, thousands of Hondas worldwide have traveled back to 2002. But why?
The problem seems to be in Honda models with GPS navigation from 2004 to 2012. Of these, the digital clock jumped back to 2002 on January 1, 2022. It is possible to set the time and date manually, several Honda dealers reported. drivers, but after turning the car off and on, the clock simply returns to 2002.
Honda riders are victims of sloppy programming
The funny thing is, this isn’t the first time Honda has messed with the time and date in its cars. In 2017 and 2021, the clocks in Honda models also jumped years back, both times exactly 1024 weeks, just as has happened now. It seems to have something to do with sloppy programming. Failure to consider the idiosyncrasies of GPS navigation.
A GPS satellite counts to 1023 weeks and then goes back to 0
A GPS satellite sends the date as a 10-digit binary code, containing a number that indicates the week. But when the weekly number reaches 1023, it goes back to 0. You have to take this into account when programming a digital clock in a navigation system. And apparently Honda’s programmers haven’t, as it’s happened three times now that Honda’s 1024 weeks go back in time.