[time-nuts] Thunderbolt GPS rollover

Tom Van Baak (lab) tvb at leapsecond.com
Thu Jun 7 20:22:38 UTC 2012


In my haste to post I forgot to delete the "00:00:00 UTC" string from that list. The rollovers happen at 00:00:00 GPS time, which differs from UTC by a number of seconds. 

/tvb (iPhone4)

On Jun 7, 2012, at 12:53 PM, "Tom Van Baak" <tvb at LeapSecond.com> wrote:

> 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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