[time-nuts] Thunderbolt GPS rollover

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Thu Jun 7 19:53:40 UTC 2012


GPS week number roll-overs happen exactly every 1024*7 = 7168 days, which is about 19.6 years.

0: 1980-01-06 00:00:00 UTC = MJD 44244
1: 1999-08-22 00:00:00 UTC = MJD 51412
2: 2019-04-07 00:00:00 UTC = MJD 58580
3: 2038-11-21 00:00:00 UTC = MJD 65748
4: 2058-07-07 00:00:00 UTC = MJD 72916

See also:
http://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2009-January/036195.html
http://old.gpsworld.com/0299/1198innovation.html
http://www.leapsecond.com/notes/gpswnro.htm

/tvb




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