28th of October, 1997

Ubbquittious

Do you remember what you what you were doing that day? perhaps you weren't even alive. I'm not trying to solve any murders or bizarre hit and run incidents but someone recently gave me a Garmin GPS 12 which had been in a drawer for quite some time.

I fired 'er up anyway after a bit of tinkering and it got a fix soon enough, only problem is that it's convinced today is 28/10/1997. The reason for the incorrect date seems to be quirk in the protocol of GPS itself. A sort of millenium bug of some sort though if the device had been in regular use and the small internal coin cell hadn't run out it wouldn't have ever cropped up

As opposed to the year, month, and day format of the Gregorian calendar, the GPS date is expressed as a week number and a seconds-into-week number. The week number is transmitted as a ten-bit field in the C/A and P(Y) navigation messages, and so it becomes zero again every 1,024 weeks (19.6 years). GPS week zero started at 00:00:00 UTC (00:00:19 TAI) on January 6, 1980, and the week number became zero again for the first time at 23:59:47 UTC on August 21, 1999 (00:00:19 TAI on August 22, 1999). To determine the current Gregorian date, a GPS receiver must be provided with the approximate date (to within 3,584 days) to correctly translate the GPS date signal. To address this concern the modernized GPS navigation message uses a 13-bit field that only repeats every 8,192 weeks (157 years), thus lasting until the year 2137 (157 years after GPS week zero).

gstack166

I came on here because I couldn't sleep. Feel like I've slept 2 weeks after reading that.

The Backwards Man

I was probably in college, or working on the building site beside the college, or drinking brandy.

koumi

I don't remember the particular day but I remember the year, I had just returned from another country where I had been living for a couple of months in the summer, my father had been diagnosed with cancer when I got back, I think Princess Diana had died the same month and yeah, the rest is a blur. Oh, and hale bopp was in the sky that year.

Scarinae

I was 11 years old and in fifth class at the time. I would normally have been in school on a Tuesday, but I think that was the week of the midterm break so I've no idea what I would have been doing

The Backwards Man

Scarinae wrote: »

I was 11 years old and in fifth class at the time. I would normally have been in school on a Tuesday, but I think that was the week of the midterm break so I've no idea what I would have been doing

It was drizzling that day as far as I remember

Sapphire3

I was 16 years old, probably on mid term break from secondary school. I was in 5th year then.

Lady is a tramp

I would've been in first year of secondary school. Cannot believe that's 20 years ago now. Insane! :eek: No idea what I'd have been up to that particular day.

God I feel so old now! And 20 years later, I STILL don't know what I want to be when I grow up!

Permabear

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Arghus

Mid term break coming up to Halloween. Hoping to procure some bangers in order to randomly blow stuff up, no doubt.

Jesus Wept

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corner of hells

Six months into a relationship with the spacer I went on to marry.

El Weirdo

It was my 21st birthday.

JupiterKid

Was doing my Masters, had just cut my hair short after 5 years and sported a goatee. I was 22.

The Backwards Man

El Weirdo wrote: »

It was my 21st birthday.

Did Morrissey send you a card ya oul bastard?

El Weirdo

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Did Morrissey send you a card ya oul bastard?

A Morrissey bought me a pint. The Morrissey didn't get me anything.

The Backwards Man

El Weirdo wrote: »

A Morrissey bought me a pint. The Morrissey didn't get me anything.

Trying to voice search a song in retort, but between the late hour and my Tennent's lisp all I can bring up are The Smurfs or Van Morrison

El Weirdo

El Weirdo wrote: »

It was my 21st birthday.

Proof, btw...

somesoldiers

Why didn't you wait a few months OP, you could have celebrated your 20 year anniversary

Sleepy

I was just starting Leaving Cert.

Birneybau

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3 kids by 20?

not yet

Well since it was only a few short weeks after Diana died I was probably still grieving..

Most likely in school (first year secondary). Probably buzzing because it was around that time that I really fancied someone for the first time.

RayM

I was *Michael Caine voice* only 15 years old.

That would've been a... Tuesday. I was on my midterm break. I was in transition year and had spent the previous week doing work experience. Jacques Villeneuve won the F1 World Championship the previous Sunday (after Schumacher attempted to ram him off the track). Manchester United had a big win that weekend too, beating one of the smaller teams by at least five or six goals.

IvyTheTerrible

I was 17 years old, in 5th year, probably sitting in double Irish or double Maths (I know I had one or the other on Tuesday in fifth year). At lunchtime, I bet we were talking about how to get to Bundoran on the Halloween weekend to sneak into Planet Earth...

SEPT 23 1989

Out of my bracket listening to Urban Hymns

Lorelli!

I was 14, in second year and would have just got home from school at this time.

edit: oh maybe i would have been on my midterm? :pac: i cant remember!!

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Jrop

I was 20 working in a crap job for crap pay. Some things never change

alroley

It was the day before I turned 6.

LadyMacBeth_

I was 9 then and in third class and most likely on midterm break. Probably sat at home watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Jrop

I loved Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Salem Saberhagen was the best thing about the show.

RhubarbCrumble

Had just started college and hated it with a passion.

Agricola

I was about to turn 16, on mid-term break, and spent the week alternating between shifting the faces off my mates and playing football with my English gf........or something like that. It was a long time ago.

Witchie

I was probably lying on the sofa breastfeeding my 21 day old son who just fed non-stop. I could hardly move from him the hungry wee fecker. Now he is a big lanky weed of a thing who has finished first year at UCD and has a job writing content for websites...just like his mammy!

His older brother who had just turned 3 was probably wrecking the house while I lay feeding and feeding and feeding.

Donald Trump

Jrop wrote: »

I was 20 working in a crap job for crap pay. Some things never change

But some things do............. I'd bet that you are no longer 20!

Witchie

Donald Trump wrote: »

But some things do............. I'd bet that you are no longer 20!

I wanted to like this but I can never like anything by D Tramp.

Donald Trump

Witchie wrote: »

Donald Trump wrote: »

But some things do............. I'd bet that you are no longer 20!

I wanted to like this but I can never like anything by D Tramp.

Go ahead. You know you want to. Ya naughty little yoke. I won't tell anyone  :-P

I was ten, so I was probably playing with a Barbie or teddy that night.

MRnotlob606

I was having fun in peru with boys of shining path

JupiterKid

Seems like half of the AH regulars were in kindergarten back in '97.

I feel old.:(

LadyMacBeth_

JupiterKid wrote: »

Seems like half of the AH regulars were in kindergarten back in '97.

I feel old.:(

You're as young as the woman (or man) that you feel, my friend.

some random drunk

I would have been in my junior cert year at school, though presumably was on mid term break at the time.

I would guess I spent the day playing Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64) on the Nintendo 64. That game was according to google released in Europe on October 20 1997 ( a Monday!), so there earliest chance I had to buy it would have been Saturday October 25. I remember getting it in GAME on Grafton Street, and it came in a big box with the Rumble Pak .

There were no football matches played on Tuesday October 28, 1997, but as another poster mentioned on Saturday 25th Man Utd beat Barnsley 7-0 and Liverpool beat Derby 4-0. On Monday 27th Leicester beat West ham 2-1.

Firefox11

1997? Hmmm....probably playing Duke Nukem 3D on the company network at about 2am in the morning.

Four Phucs Ache

I would have been 16 and being a Tuesday I would have gone to work in quinnsworth after school where I was probably packing the drinks section while eating damaged Mars bars.

Cork Lass

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It was drizzling that day as far as I remember

Nah, it was lashing down :pac:

STB.

Trapped in a 10 by 10 foot shed in Clontarf banging out the dance hits.....probably. Its hazy.

Mint Sauce

19 years old. Was working in a Swimming Pool, carrying on from when I had worked there part time. Had decided I was done with school after finishing my A Levels, and was looking for what I called a proper job.

HalloweenJack

I was 9.

I think that was the mid-term where my bollocks of a cousin came up to stay with us for a week and wrecked my head. He was the same age as me so we always hung around together at family dos even though I didn't particularly like him and he seemed to love playing pranks on me. You can imagine what a week of that was like.