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GPS Week Number Rollover (aka the new millennium bug)
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<blockquote data-quote="Pheasant Surprise" data-source="post: 6175276" data-attributes="member: 1103"><p>As we’re now a week past the GPS Week Rollover Date and some folks are seeing issues on their screens and receivers - and may do for some months yet, thought I’d ping this up again. </p><p></p><p>So what is it all about? Well to copy/paraphrase the Topcon website...</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The GPS satellites send a 10-digit binary communication message toward Earth with a “week number” counted from 0000 to 1023. Once the maximum coded week of 1024 is reached (which takes 19.7 years), the week number value resets to 0000.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>The GPS Week Rollover event will occur on April 6, 2019, at 23:59:42 UTC</strong>.**</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">This will be the second global event of its kind and will affect all users of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology regardless of brand. The last GPS Rollover Week event was in 1999. The next will occur in another 19.7 years.</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">What Impact is expected?</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">With the wide variety of GPS technology applications in use today, the impact to users will vary depending on the use case, e.g., surveying with a base and rover receiver, machine control, OEM placement, or precision agriculture. Impacts such as slower initialization time and incorrect date records can be expected for some receiver and software combinations if the firmware and software are not updated to the latest available versions. In most cases, an update to the latest receiver firmware and latest versions of software are recommended.</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #59b300">What should I do?</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #59b300">Update your firmware and controller software to minimize the impact of GPS rollover.</span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"><strong>**Note: some manufacturer implementations interpret the Week Number parameter relative to a date other than January 5, 1980. These devices should not be affected by the GPS Week Number rollover on April 6, 2019 <u>but may experience a similar rollover event at a future date.</u></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pheasant Surprise, post: 6175276, member: 1103"] As we’re now a week past the GPS Week Rollover Date and some folks are seeing issues on their screens and receivers - and may do for some months yet, thought I’d ping this up again. So what is it all about? Well to copy/paraphrase the Topcon website... [COLOR=#0000ff]The GPS satellites send a 10-digit binary communication message toward Earth with a “week number” counted from 0000 to 1023. Once the maximum coded week of 1024 is reached (which takes 19.7 years), the week number value resets to 0000. [B]The GPS Week Rollover event will occur on April 6, 2019, at 23:59:42 UTC[/B].** This will be the second global event of its kind and will affect all users of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology regardless of brand. The last GPS Rollover Week event was in 1999. The next will occur in another 19.7 years.[/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#ff0000]What Impact is expected?[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#ff0000]With the wide variety of GPS technology applications in use today, the impact to users will vary depending on the use case, e.g., surveying with a base and rover receiver, machine control, OEM placement, or precision agriculture. Impacts such as slower initialization time and incorrect date records can be expected for some receiver and software combinations if the firmware and software are not updated to the latest available versions. In most cases, an update to the latest receiver firmware and latest versions of software are recommended.[/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#59b300]What should I do?[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#59b300]Update your firmware and controller software to minimize the impact of GPS rollover.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#59b300][B][/B] [B]**Note: some manufacturer implementations interpret the Week Number parameter relative to a date other than January 5, 1980. These devices should not be affected by the GPS Week Number rollover on April 6, 2019 [U]but may experience a similar rollover event at a future date.[/U][/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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