WED Dec 31?? Really??

[dennis]

Has anybody else seen this (today IS Tuesday)? I reported to Technical Support and they are baffled as well.

The only possible explanation I can think of is that the year got prematurely bumped to 2014.

 

[sp4rk]

How did it feel? Losing an entire day?

 

[MikeC]

Just checked and mine also says Wednesday. Some kind of end of year software glitch?

 

[Zextraterrestrial]

2012?

Still feels like Monday

 

[vgrinshpun]

Has anybody else seen this (today IS Tuesday)? I reported to Technical Support and they are baffled as well.

The only possible explanation I can think of is that the year got prematurely bumped to 2014.

Any IT specialists in the family? Practical joke?

 

[steve841]

That's funny .. I can picture this sending Elon through the roof.

 

[Vger]

The only possible explanation I can think of is that the year got prematurely bumped to 2014.

Yes, perhaps prematurely in relation to some far eastern time zone. UTC would not quite do it, so it is rather baffling.

 

[Lump]

Same...

 

[sp4rk]

I'm jealous.

Mine is working fine. Still Tuesday. CST.

 

[GuySmily]

Seems like a potentially easy mistake to make in a programming sense. Since 12/31/14 (one year off) is a Wednesday, this is probably a simple case of using >= instead of > or something like that. Still, this seems a bit odd. The day of the week doesn't depend on what year it is (or where we are within that year), so I don't know why someone would code in a comparison like that in the first place.

Usually the date is stored in a standardized manner, such as "the number of days since 1/1/1900." In VB, for example, day 1 is 12/31/1899, and today (12/31/13) is day 41369. To determine the day of the week, you just need to mod today's date (41369) by 7. For those who don't know, mod (modulus) means to divide and get the remainder. For example, 15/7 = 2 remainder 1, so 15 mod 7 = 1. If you mod today's date by 7, the answer should give you the day of the week.

Since 12/31/1899 (day 1) was a Sunday, this gives you:
1=Sun
2=Mon
3=Tue
4=Wed
5=Thu
6=Fri
0=Sat (because 7/7 is 1, remainder 0)

Today (12/31/13) is 41369, so:
41639 mod 7 = 3 (Tuesday)

I suspect that they correctly calculated the date, but for next year. 12/31/14 is 42004, so:
42004 mod 7 = 4 (Wednesday)

Sorry for the programming lesson. Anyway, to make this kind of mistake (assuming it's triggered only on the last day of the year), there was probably a simple logic error, such as the calculation happening on the wrong side of an If statement, or the wrong operator (> instead of >=) being used.

I would LOVE to examine the code behind this. Too bad it's probably something we'll never see.

 

[TEG]

...The only possible explanation I can think of is that the year got prematurely bumped to 2014.

Yeah, Dec 31st is Wednesday in 2014.

And it is already Wednesday, 2014 (but Jan 1) accross the dateline in places like Australia.
The logic to figure out the day of the week must be 'goofy'. Maybe some sort of universal time translation bug going between date and day.

By the way, I had run into a 'bug' 14 years ago, when trying to one-click record the year 2000 new years eve fireworks show on my Tivo. It tried to go back and record the bit of 'buffer' from the previous year and ended up crashing and rebooting the unit instead of recording the show.

 

[Todd Burch]

Me too...

Between the messed up time change in the Fall, and this...well...the clock programmer at Tesla needs to get canned! Embarassing when your cutting edge car can't even tell time!

BTW, Happy Teslaversary to me!

 

[Btrflyl8e]

Funny, I had to grab my phone to check since I took a pic earlier today for other reasons and never even noticed

 

[dennis]

And mine just magically changed to TUE while I was in Starbucks. I haven't received the promised callback from Tech Support so I don't know if/how they intervened.

 

[AnOutsider]

Me too...

Between the messed up time change in the Fall, and this...well...the clock programmer at Tesla needs to get canned! Embarassing when your cutting edge car can't even tell time!

Heh, remember how many years the iPhone has had similar time/date issues.

 

[Krugerrand]

Between the messed up time change in the Fall, and this...well...the clock programmer at Tesla needs to get canned! Embarassing when your cutting edge car can't even tell time!

Because it's an end of the world mistake and therefore someone needs to be punished for it.

 

[Todd Burch]

Because it's an end of the world mistake and therefore someone needs to be punished for it.

I was being a bit sarcastic .

 

[ecarfan]

Mine shows Tue as of 5:37PM PST. On the latest firmware release.

 

[InTheShadows]

I just checked and ours is right and we are on the east coast.

 

[ausdma]

ROFLMAO. On the way to the New Years Eve Party the car said "Wed Dec 31". On the home it said "Tue Jan 1".

Somewhere in Tesla Cyberland some metrics are all screwed up!