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Every one of the devices failing at this particular date have been 'corrected' for it: They are shifting the wrap point based on their manufacturing date. The
by nullc 4y ago
Every one of the devices failing at this particular date have been 'corrected' for it: They are shifting the wrap point based on their manufacturing date. The natural wrap point isn't now-- the second natural wrap was in 2018.
Correcting for it more elaborately than that is challenging, in particular if you depend on remembering the number of wraps a replacement part pulled off the shelf will return wrong dates when the original was fine, also if you remember then a false (or spoofed) signal can put the device in a bricked state.
Most GPS receivers (including most of the ones listed here) can be temporarily fixed by setting the date manually. But their interfaces may be inaccessible in the devices they're installed in and the fix will be lost after restart.
The L1C/L2C/L5 gps signals use a 13 bit week number. Hardware for the new signals was first deployed with the IIR-M satellites in 2005 with L2C support, which were delayed from something like 1997... but no broadcasting of L2C started until 2014. Right now very few receivers support the new signals.