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GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019
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| Feb 12, 2019
| Shaun Nichols
Posted on 02/14/2019 10:35:24 AM PST by dayglored
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Y2K deja vu....
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:35:24 AM PST
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dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:36:23 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: ShadowAce
Candidate for a Tech Ping *ping*
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:36:49 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; Ernest_at_the_Beach; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:37:48 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: dayglored
Now, it's hopefully true that devices with firmware written after 2010 or so will be okay.
But how many cars are out there with vehicular GPS units with firmware older than that???
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:38:46 AM PST
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dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Some people will follow their GPS right off a bridge or into a river. Let the lawsuits begin.
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:40:28 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
To: dayglored
Bump for reference.
any mfg site so you can see if your GPS works after April of this year?
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:41:53 AM PST
by
Robert357
( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
To: dayglored
My 2006 Acura does. Runs like a charm.
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:42:38 AM PST
by
VA_Gentleman
("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
To: dayglored
If you have a newer iPhone, this should NOT be a problem.
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:42:53 AM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: dayglored
Hopefully my 2012 Lincoln Navigator will not be affected, because if it is the irony would be too much to handle...
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:44:18 AM PST
by
Made In The USA
(Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
To: dayglored
Why does the week affect GPS location?
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:48:04 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Made In The USA
Nicely played. You could end up having a Navigator that doesn’t navigate.
To: ConservativeMind
Its like saying my garage, depending on the day, is either on the west of my home, separated only by a wall, or 10,000 miles south of my home, due to this rollover error.
No, its still one wall west of my home.
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:51:18 AM PST
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ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Made In The USA
Hopefully my 2012 Lincoln Navigator will not be affected... Is that an Aztec 2012 Navigator?
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:53:27 AM PST
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ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
02/14/2019 10:53:47 AM PST
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ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
02/14/2019 11:01:36 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: dayglored
This alreay happened once before in August of1999. The world didn’t end then, either.
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posted on
02/14/2019 11:02:59 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: ShadowAce; SunkenCiv
Beware! Your old Aztec Navigator Mayan run out of Inca’s shortly, because they do need a new cartridge every two Venusian millennium cycles.
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posted on
02/14/2019 11:05:15 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: dayglored
We keep shooting ourselves in the foot over stuff like this. Apparently, their ‘fix’ isn’t much better, as it will have a rollover issue in a hundred years or so. We really need to start thinking about longer-term timeframes for our technology. If it can’t handle dates 10,000 years into the future, it should be a non-starter.
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posted on
02/14/2019 11:07:59 AM PST
by
zeugma
(Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
To: ConservativeMind
Why does the week affect GPS location? GPS devices determine their location by calculating the distance from multiple GPS satellites based on the time of arrival of timestamped messages. So, if you were really far away from one or more of the satellites relative to the others, then in theory their timestamped packets could arrive with a time difference more than a few seconds.
Of course that can't actually happen in normal circumstances since the entire set of GPS satellites is close together in earth orbit.
But it is possible that some extraterrestrials with a super sensitive GPS receiver that have a black hole between us and them could see radically different apparent path lengths to their receiver. No doubt they would figure out the discrepancy and not get lost on the way to Galactiburger in their hovercars.
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