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Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Apr 26 18:26:42 UTC 2017


Mark Atwood said:
> I'm going to work it into a blog post.  Anyone with a good grasp of the GPS
> rollover issues is invited to work on it as well.

It's not just a GPS issue.

Unix/POSIX has the same problem with time_t
It rolls over into the sign bit in 2038

NTP packet format has the same problem too.
It overflows an unsigned 32 bit field in 2036


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