Garmin Edge 800 Date & Time

Wirral_paul

Hi all

Does anyone know how to adjust the date and time on the Garmin 800 at all?? I've just been out for a long ride this morning and after uploading to Strava, its showing the date as 27th May and the clock is 12hrs fast!!

Cheers
Paul

sungod

it's a gps, it gets time/date from the satellite network

what date/time does the 800 say it is? maybe it's strava that is the problem

you can download the 800 manual here...

http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/Edge_800_OM_EN.pdf

Wirral_paul

Bugger. I just turned the GPS on and left it in the window, and its now reset itself to the correct time and date. Guess i was just too hasty setting off for the 45 mile ride to the start of today's Sportive at 5:45am this morning!!

Ah well - live n learn. Thanks for clearing up the reason there Sungod

sungod

it'd be odd if it has logged the wrong date/time for the whole ride, if it's internal clock is off it should resync as soon as it gets a lock on the signals from the satellites

if you want to salvage the data, export it in a readable format and you should be able to manually edit any bad times at the start of the file

jez6363

Sadly Garmin Edge 800, with latest 2.5 software and earlier, does NOT set the date correctly, or the time. Mine is about 2 weeks out of date now, for no apparent reason. Its incredibly frustrating to know that a device that connects to the most accurate clocks on the planet can not tell the time.

Sadly its not just Garmin that can not write software - my TomTom has no understanding of the UK timezones, in spite of being connected to same atomic clocks, and having exact knowledge of its location, and being able to connect to the internet in case the timezones were ever changed.

Its a sad indictment of software developers at Garmin that this sort of thing is broken.

I am not sure if it is related - but my Edge 800 sometimes also messes up a new course, and adds one initial point from a previous outing, so the map views are a pain to use - though it does know the track length is correct - it just tacks on a point for showing the map - and it messes up the altitude increase / decrease, which can be 25% out, if the previous route started at a significantly different altitude.

Shame on Garmin.

redvee

My 800 on v2.5 is spot on with the date & time apart from saying my average speeds are low.

markwb79

redvee wrote:

My 800 on v2.5 is spot on with the date & time apart from saying my average speeds are low.

Definitely blame Garmin on that point.

My time changed perfectly on my 500. Havent noticed that the date is wrong either.

Wrath Rob

Markwb79 wrote:

redvee wrote:

My 800 on v2.5 is spot on with the date & time apart from saying my average speeds are low.

Definitely blame Garmin on that point.

My time changed perfectly on my 500. Havent noticed that the date is wrong either.

Same for me, though I've noticed the following issue. When doing interval training, "time" is definitely not correct. During the work section, my Garmin slows time down. However it obviously recognises this and compensates during the recovery phase, when it definitely speeds back up. The net result is that the intervals are longer and the recovery shorter than I'd like them to be. I've logged this as a bug with Garmin but I got told its down to user error?

Even stranger I've noticed the same problem with Trainerroad, and that's not GPS. Maybe I generate some sort of space-time continuum problem due to the amazing power/speed I'm capable of? Has anyone else noticed this too? Or is it all a load of relativity?

cush123

You can use Garmin Updater to download an update for time and date sync. It usually resides at the bottom of available updates are all the language updates. Sorry, can't remember off hand what it is called.