[time-nuts] Warped back to 1993

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sun Aug 11 18:00:22 UTC 2013


On 08/11/2013 07:39 PM, Mark Sims wrote:
> According to the Thunderbolt manual on July 30, 2017 Tbolts will experience a rollover error.  
> In version 4 of Lady Heather (being developed),  I have added a rollover compensation mechanism.  If the GPS year is less than the OS year,  1024 weeks is added to the GPS time until the year catches up.  Or you can manually specify a rollover offset or disable the feature. 	
2017 07 30 = 1960 0

That means that it uses GPS week 936 as base for it's wrap around limit.

Makes sense. Should we ask Trimble for FW upgrade already now?

Cheers,
Magnus



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