repeater programmers...we have a problem !!

[AI4EP]

Tomorrow is February 29,2004....most computer controlled repeaters do NOT count this as a day...they go from February 28 to March 1. Some one is going to have to go and re-program these repeaters that tell the DATE, that it is wrong; in some shape or fashion. Otherwise they will be saying Monday is March 2, 2004 ( when really it is March 1, 2004 ) and so on through the rest of the week and the whole month of March and April and so on ) So, if your local 10 meter, 6 meter, 2 meter, or 440 meter repeater tells the DATE, check it out after midnight tonight ( Saturday, February 28,2004 ) and see what DATE it says it really is...this is LEAP year and we have a February 29, 2004 which is Sunday.....this has NO effect on the TIME-OF-DAY functions, which are usually a few minutes slow any way. ( lol ) ...kd4amg

[KA5S]

I once had an Amateur license with (IIRC) an expiration date of 29 February, 1965. The FCC didn't care about my logic, though.

Ha!

Cortland

[N5TJD]

Lots of them are wrong out here already... one gives the time, saying it is 3:26pm when it is 2:26pm, and another gives the date..." February 28th 1904," umm, I gues it wasn't y2k compliant. lol.

[AI4EP]

as they say " a stopped clock is telling the correct time 2 times per day "

[AI4EP]

yep, soon it will be SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2004... kerchunk and id yourself any and repeaters in your area that you know tell date ( the time wont be an issue till next month with dst starting ) ...no I aint promoting doing any thing illegal ...then IF you find one that sez it is MARCH 1, 2004 ...contact the repeater owners and tell them of the problem of the date being incorrect... if you wake them at one - four A.M. I am sure you may be cut off on the telephone by them, just dont call them on the repeaters autopatch !! ( another topic in itself ) ...have FUN with your radio ( aint that one of the 2000 reasons you got into amateur radio ? ) ...---kd4amg---

[W1XBS]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KD5WZB @ Feb. 28 2004,13:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Lots of them are wrong out here already... one gives the time, saying it is 3:26pm when it is 2:26pm, and another gives the date...&quot; February 28th 1904,&quot; umm, I gues it wasn&#39;t y2k compliant. lol.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Funny, I have never seen a repeater that&#39;s date aware, just time. Perhaps the high end controllers do date, and TPTB around here have it shut off for that very reason.

Wrong time/date is reportable as &quot;deceptive transmissions&quot;.

[AI4EP]

some one sends me an e-mail asking &quot; what about those 220 Mhz repeaters ? Yes, they are included, too IF they tell the date over the airwaves...sorry...not perfect all the time...and after MIDNIGHT it will be the month of MARCH 2004

[AI4EP]

...it appears that all the LOCAL ones have been updated ( whether some needed it or not i dont know )... so now they tell you it is MARCH 2, 2004 and it IS the same date....

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