Lovely. It's a leap year bug in upstream gpsd (fixed in newest release). Fortunately dates will start matching reality again on the 29th of February.

EDIT:

I've tried a minor patch and it seems fine -- except that Nokia has not released source for current osso-gpsd, so I can't be sure..

Current binary on OS2008 is 1.0-25, but I've compiled 1.0-23 with the patch for myself, if anyone else wants it go ahead: http://folks.o-hand.com/jku/osso-gpsd/. Will be interesting to see if this affects the time-to-first-fix...

It gets even stranger. When a lock is acquired, the first couple of fixes report a date in Feb. 2036!

signal sender=:1.87 -> dest=(null destination) path=/org/gpsd; interface=org.gpsd; member=fix
double 2.08591e+09

Something is very wrong here. No wonder the internal GPS doesn't work right.

Wow.... this would explain a lot. I get long fix times and I'm in rural northwest Montana with clear skies and at least 10 visible satellites with good signal.

As dyerga pointed out in the bugzilla, the last part is not actually true: chinook has an older source version, but there is a OS2008 repository that does have 1.0-25 source: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/os2...e/o/osso-gpsd/

I've updated the patched version:
http://folks.o-hand.com/jku/osso-gpsd/

How do you install this ? With dpkg ?

you change to red pill mode (search the forum in case you don't already know it), then you can simply click on the package in your browser and "open" it. After installation, make sure to change to the blue pill mode again.

@jussik: As a simple gpsd user I only need the last package (http://folks.o-hand.com/jku/osso-gps...0-25_armel.deb), am I right? Oh and BTW: Thanks ;-)

Does this fix things for people? Just wondering.

Yeah, that's my experience -- I'm actually seeing fix times <1 min... Really promising unless I'm seeing major placebo effects

http://vilunki.wordpress.com/2008/02...-gps-problems/

Exactly. Let me know how it goes.

Still seeing 2+ minutes for acquire from a location that's less than 10 feet from the last location - after the initial "fix"; however I'm now connecting to 5-7 satellites, whereas before I had only acquired 3-5 (tops).