Time is wrong.. DVR thinks it is 1970!!!

In case you got a wrong date, time, or wrong GPS coordinates are recorded,
it is necessary to REMOVE ALL FILES from
\\BLACKVUE\RECORD
directory !!!!!
E.g. switch the car DVR off, remove a Micro-SD card, insert it into your
computer, and delete all the files from
\\BlackVue\Record
directory. (It is also possible to format the card, just make sure to place
your time zone file into the citytime directory!).
Upon a first reboot when GPS will enter into a working mode (blue LED is
permanently on), you must see a PROPER TIME and DATE.
The above did not fix it.
I also erased ALL data from the card and let the DVR copy the files it needed onto the card, Moscow time file was put in place on initialization of card. But that should only cause hours to be off.. not the years.
using a 64gig Sandisk Ultra formatted with Fat32 - 32k clusters. Will swap back in the 16gig stock card and see what happens.
reverting to 16gig card did nothing to help.