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If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002

Robert Carnegie Silver badge

Re: Can someone please clarify what the article doesn't?

I infer that "turning it off and on again" is not a fix.

Apparently it's slightly like defining a count of weeks since week zero as a 9 bits number instead of 10 bits, so week 512 is read as week 0, week 513 is read as week 1, and so on. It was meant to run up to week 1023, and it will.

The software needs to be updated from time to time anyway, to redefine which week numbers relate to a recent past "week 0" - let's say W > 500 relates to the actual last week 0, and 0 <= W <= 500 is counting from the NEXT week 0.

Anything that I've just said may be wrong.

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