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FYI - GPS date rollover
DerekW
132 Points
You may wish to read about a date issue with the GPS system, see:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/12/current_gps_epoch_ends/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/12/current_gps_epoch_ends/
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Older devices that are no longer supported may finally have to be replaced, but most of those are probably just used for personal reasons. If all of my older Garmin's were to stop working correctly, it's no great loss as they only serve to be spare for a more recent spare.
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1058676834940776450
I know of at least one government agency that has lots of integrated GPS devices in remote locations that were found susceptible to pretty much the exact same bug. Long story short, even when the original manufacturer wrote a firmware fix they were a massive pain to update not only because of their remote location, but because the government typically doesn't give employees administrative access to their computer, which they discovered was required to run the firmware update.
In any case, a fix was made available by Garmin a couple of weeks ago.