Yeah this stuff still happens. Just recently in 2019, the GPS clock rolled over. The cellphone I had at the time (it was a 2011 build) couldn't deal with it and

Yeah this stuff still happens. Just recently in 2019, the GPS clock rolled over. The cellphone I had at the time (it was a 2011 build) couldn't deal with it and displayed a wrong GPS date, thankfully it was not used to prime the internal clock and was limited to the GPS diagnosis app. But still interesting. In the new protocol they only added 3 more bits, creating 157 year long epochs. I'd argue that this epoch is more dangerous than the currently deployed one because with the currently deployed one it's more likely that manufacturers build ability to cope with a rollover into their devices. It's also shorter than the lifetime of the united states...