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Re:A year should have 13 months by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:16PM (#38524594)
It's not the GPS spec, it's the EPROM flying through space that now needs upgrades to sync itself.
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Re:A year should have 13 months by Zekio on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:21PM (#38524642)
why would it be relevant for the GPS to switch calendar we have converters between the various current ones, afaik to switch to a 13 month calendar we would only need to software updates for dirt side devices
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Re:A year should have 13 months by 1970-01-01 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:39PM (#38524855)
Satellite has an OS. OS needs to know and log things. 2028-13-13 does not compute, and all time would require a translation layer. This layer needs to work in hardware, because space is hard and when things break it can't be rebuilt. So each sat could have a hardware box on the ground, making new timestamps from old, but it would just be easier to run with the current calendar until we become a true space civilization.
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