On August 16, 2017, Honda owners reported their clocks zeroed out to 00:00. “Many GPS devices only work on a single 1024-week span and will no longer show an accurate date once the week count rolls over, regardless where that roll over falls,” 2012 Honda Accord HFP further clarified. That date was exactly 1024 weeks ago (1024 = 2^10) We jumped forward an hour due to May being in daylight savings time.” “Going into the “hidden” diagnostic menu on Sunday, I discovered the GPS date was now “May 19, 2002″. “This is actually a GPS Epoch issue,” Jacalar says.

After poking around in his Accord’s Navigation systm diagnostic menu, he discovered his GPS date was set 1024 weeks back, or May 19, 2002. The best explanation of what’s happening is from Drive Accord forum member Jacalar.

They can also contact the Honda technical department for additional assistance with this if necessary.“ Y2K22 Bug “ As such, it would be best to check with your local Honda authorized dealer for any updates as they would have the latest information for this and will be able to assist once the fix is released. Once there is a fix for this issue Honda authorized dealers will be made aware of it and will be able to assist with this at that point.“ Honda UK– “We have just received some more information regarding this and were advised that the Honda technical department are currently working on this. Please be assured that we will continue to monitor this and will advise you if a fix is available before that time.” Honda USA– “We have escalated the NAVI Clock Issue to our Engineering Team and they have informed us that you will experience issue from Jan 2022 thru August 2022 and then it will auto-correct. Official Honda ResponsesĬRV Owners Club is cataloging official responses from Honda. Honda and Honda dealerships are aware of the issue. If you’re affected, knowing this one case, I would not get my hopes up. There is one case of a 2009 Honda Accord owner reporting their date and time appears unaffected, citing a navigation DVD update from 2016. Pulling a battery cable or fuse to reset your system also does not work. No firmware or DVD navigation update seems to work. Honda Pilot owners seem to only report their time is off by one hour. There’s evidence of model specific time problems. Time shown on the navigation and stereo unit also do not match. Here are model-specific threads from owners discussing this world-wide issue.Īffected Honda and Acura owners report similar issues, their date, and time are wrong and no longer update automatically.Īnd, when owners do try to manually adjust time and date, their date reverts to a certain date in 2022 (often January 1, 2002) and time jumps back to a specific hour.

Here’s a photo from an Accord owner, date stuck on January 1, 2002. There are a handful of models not reporting any issues, including the latest generation of each model, 8th and 9th gen Honda Civics in the UK and 4th gen Honda CR-Vs.

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