How can you trust the clock?

  • Tschuuuls@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    But this would mean the epoch here would be the 2 April 1984 or maybe the 1st, if you respect the time as well, which sounds a tiny bit random lol. But so would be to use a week counter in the first place :D Especially since those trains are from the early 2000s.

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      1 year ago

      How did you get to that epoch? I haven’t seen any images of this happening earlier than 2003, so the overflow must have happened late last year or early this year, and whatever week 0 is is some time around 2002/2003. That would also fit with your comment that they were introduced in the early 2000s.

      Maybe they just didn’t expect the trains to last 20 years 😄

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        1 year ago

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        Well, I did shown_date-1024 weeks=epoch. Your explanation sounds correct, though.

        The only thing is, I’ve seen 2003 date before 2023 in random trains. Could also be a weird glitch when time sync fails or something.

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          1 year ago

          It could be that the epoch is the start of 2003, so any train with a reset week counter shows 2003, and now they all do since the counter has overflowed late last year.

          The fact that they use a week counter in general is something I remember from someone familiar with the onboard computer system, but I don’t remember how it’s set up specifically unfortunately.