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teeth6
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Posted: 10 Apr 2015 at 10:07pm |
On my flight South yesterday, I saw an interesting time on one of my data blocks and wondering if Jake has an explanation. I have my 540s set to -4 GMT time so the correct times do display. One data block had a local time of 5:28 PM (which was correct). Another datablock had an ETE of 3:10 to my destination. The last datablock had an ETA of 8:38 AM. Obviously the arrival time was correct but it had AM instead of PM. I'm wondering if this is because I arrived after 8 PM which is technically the next day on the GMT scale? I just found it strange that the unit knew the present time, the ETE but had the arrival time exactly 12 hours off.
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MysticCobra
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I saw this behavior once before when I was flying. I had GMT set to either -5 or -6, and local time was accurate but some calculated future times were 12 hrs off. This was when the unit was brand new and I wasn't sure I hadn't screwed something up. I was flying back and forth between Central and Eastern time zones, and one of the times I adjusted the GMT offset seemed to correct the issue. I haven't noticed it since (but I also haven't looked for it).
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teeth6
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In this case, I was staying in the same time zone and GMT was definitely set correctly. The only explanation I can think of is that 8 PM is 2400 GMT so I was landing the next day in Zulu time even though it was 8:38 PM
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AviJake
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Doesn't ring any bells with me. I'll test in lab on Monday and see if we did something silly.
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Steve Jacobson
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teeth6
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Report back what you find. Just curious.
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n7ifr
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FWIF, I noticed the same mismatch on the 540 iPad Simulator!
Tom
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AviJake
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Yah, I'm pretty sure it's a bug. We'll know for sure on Monday I think.
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Steve Jacobson
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teeth6
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Jake,
Did you have a chance to check on this issue in the lab yet? I am pretty sure it is a bug as I was able to duplicate it on a flight home yesterday. My arrival time at my home airport was to be 7:15 PM which appeared correctly. I then added another airport way point to the end of my flight plan which would require another 60 minutes of flying. Sure enough, the destination arrival time became 8:15 AM instead of 8:15 PM. I would still guess it must be related to the fact that I passed into the next day UTC time after 8 PM. |
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teeth6
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Jake,
Were you able to confirm this finding in the lab? If yes, do you expect it to be corrected in the next update after 10.1? |
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jhbehrens
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You could set time to display in UTC as a work-around?
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