Buggy WNRO fixup

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:02:00 -0800
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Gary said:
> > Basically, if the GPS reports more the 17 leap seconds, then the
> > time has to be aster 1 Jan 2017.  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I assume the leap second tangle is so avoid breaking some very old
> test cases by bumping them into the current epoch.

Only the not so very old test cases.  The very old test cases needed
a different fix.  For those, the "# Date:" header in the regression test is
used.

> The code I was expecting doesn't know anything about leaps.
> 
> It would be close to:
>   while (t < PIVOT) t += 1024*7*86400

Which will break after 1024 weeks. Which sounds like a lot, but there
are a lot of GPS that are more than 1024 weeks old since their firmware
was cut.

> Are there any GPS units old enough to need to get bumped twice?

Yes.  A few.

RGDS
GARY
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