GPS week number rollover
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gps-week-number-rollover-179-13669724
title:
GPS week number rollover
text:
The GPS week number rollover is a phenomenon that happens every 1,024 weeks, which is about 19.6 years. The Global Positioning System (GPS) broadcasts a date, including a week number counter that is stored in only ten binary digits, whose range is therefore 0–1,023. After 1,023, an integer overflow causes the internal value to roll over, changing to zero again. Software that is not coded to anticipate the rollover to zero may stop working or could be moved back in time by 20 or 40 years. GPS is
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encyclopedia
description:
Event occurring every 1024 weeks
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover
date created:
2019-03-14T15:39:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T00:29:49Z
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