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    When taking a snapshot on my Helix 10 Mega si........and the same would happen on my old 899 si........many times the date on the image is December 31, 1969. I have formatted the SD card many times. While I have not tried another SD card......I have others but too large a capacity for the unit.......I just find it odd most snapshots will have proper date but every so often I get one with the December 31, 1969 date. And yes my time and date is correct on unit. Has anyone ever experienced this?

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    must have hit 88 mph on those days LOL sorry i couldnt resist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by acwd1950 View Post
    must have hit 88 mph on those days LOL sorry i couldnt resist.
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    I have seen similar date oddities in my old 1197 ...

    If the unit Menu is set to also assign a Waypoint at the SnapShot creation - this is one scenario where a corrupt Waypoint can cause gremlins in the unit functionality ...

    It would be a good practice to check the Waypoint date in the unit memory (when a Snapshot is created) and delete the Waypoint if the date is erroneous ...

    A Waypoint created at a Snapshot creation is denoted with a "Sxxxxx" assignment character sequence ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by rnvinc View Post
    I have seen similar date oddities in my old 1197 ...

    If the unit Menu is set to also assign a Waypoint at the SnapShot creation - this is one scenario where a corrupt Waypoint can cause gremlins in the unit functionality ...

    It would be a good practice to check the Waypoint date in the unit memory (when a Snapshot is created) and delete the Waypoint if the date is erroneous ...

    A Waypoint created at a Snapshot creation is denoted with a "Sxxxxx" assignment character sequence ...

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    Thanks.....I’ll check that out.

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    December 31, 1969 is the "unix epoch" date (actually the day before for USA zones relative to GMT). In some systems programming (SW), time is kept as a count of seconds since this date. When a file shows this date, it means the time field is null, or all zeroes - for some reason. So when the file was created, the timestamp got left all zeroes because of some bug.
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