Re: Garmin 2610 in Australia

"smithxpj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:51:48 +0800, "Klink"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have a Garmin 2610 that I purchased online from the USA. I use it in
> >Australia with City Navigator Australia. Everything about the unit and
the
> >software is excellent aside from one small problem that I have found. As
I
> >am in Perth I have to set the correct time by using the UTC Offset of
+8.00,
> >however, even though that gives me the correct time the satellite is then
> >unable to provide correct information for sunset and sunrise and
therefore
> >the mapping colour mode will not set correctly to day or night at the
> >correct time. If I set the time to any of the preset settings such as
Samoa
> >or Atlantic it gets correct information for sunset and sunrise but of
course
> >then displays the time incorrectly. Can you suggest a workaround for this
> >problem?
> >
> >regards
> >Bob Klein
> >
>
> I can tell you of a classic computational 'blooper' in Garmin's early
> offerings.
>
> I can't remember the exact model off the top of my head...perhaps a
> Scout...three channel receiver...whatever.
>
> But when fired up in Australia it calculated sunrise as coming up on a
> latitude around Tasmania. Did a full reset and cold start again...same
> result. When we returned the borrowed unit to the owner, he had
> already been in contact with Garmin about the problem.
>
> Seems that when Garmin programmed it for the *southern* hemisphere,
> instead of 'flipping' the latitude formulas they just 'pushed'
> everything from the equator downwards!!!!
>
> That's going back some many years now, so you would hope to hell that
> Garmin would have gotten over producing any glaring navigational
> bloopers these days.

I've been directly involved with Garmin products since their conception in
the early 1990's and I've never heard of that one. Are you sure it was a
Garmin unit??

NT
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