Upcoming GPS rollover

[Eric S. Raymond]

Fred Wright via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> It appears that I'm not the only one to think of using the leap offset to
> disambiguate the week number, but I don't know if any vendors have actually
> implemented that.

I experimented with this sometime back myself.  AFAIK nobody has implemented
it in firmware.
 
> BTW, where did this term "pivot" come from?  I've never seen the word used
> in that sense outside this ML.

It's used that way in the NTP code somewhere. I think that's where I picked
it up.
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