[time-nuts] A milestone approaches

Bob kb8tq kb8tq at n1k.org
Thu Jul 13 18:31:49 UTC 2017


Hi

I’ll put that on my calendar right away :)

Yet another potential bug to check for in MJD code ….

Bob

> On Jul 13, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Peter Vince <petervince1952 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2038 could be an "interesting" year - on the 22nd of April, the MJD hits
> 65535  (2^16-1) !
> 
> 
> On 12 July 2017 at 13:19, Tom Van Baak <tvb at leapsecond.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the notice. Add these to your list:
>> ....
> 
> 
> 
>> 2147483648 0x80000000 Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 2038 GMT (you survived)
>> 
>> While we're at it, we have a rare T&F MJD event coming in 2023:
>> 
>> 1968-05-24 00:00:00 UTC (DOY = 145, Fri) = JD 2440000.5 = MJD 40000.0
>> 1995-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (DOY = 283, Tue) = JD 2450000.5 = MJD 50000.0
>> 2023-02-25 00:00:00 UTC (DOY =  56, Sat) = JD 2460000.5 = MJD 60000.0
>> 
>> /tvb
>> 
>> 
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