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Old 2nd May 2015, 18:47
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MarcK
 
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All counters roll over (overflow) at some point. Some more often than others. The GPS Week counter rolls over every 1024 weeks (19+ years). The first rollover happened in 1999 (just before the year 2000 rollover problem) and caused many GPS systems to fail. The next GPS week rollover will happen in 2019. The date format of Digital Certificates will have a rollover situation in 2049.
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