The impact of 2000 has brought the entire world upside down at the turn of the millennium and has led to the emergence of many legends, films and old stories that have not ended in anything very dangerous. Now we have a similar problem of these stories with some GPS because of the format dates used. This will cause some of these devices to stop working as of April 6, 2019.
The US Department of Homeland Security has long warned against the problem of how the time received from the satellite is compared. The information is stored in a 10-bit system, that is, from 2 to 10 or 1024, starting from zero until you reach 1.023.
The US Department of Homeland Security has long warned against the problem of how the time received from the satellite is compared. The information is stored in a 10-bit system, that is, from 2 to 10 or 1024, starting from zero until you reach 1.023.
Every 1024 weeks, our age is about 20 years and the calculation is back to 0. This is what will happen today April 6, 2019 for the second time in history (it actually happened once in 1999 when it was 1,024 jobs as of January 1980. The problem is that the implementation of many devices Incorrect, and if the date is not reset, GPS will fail in the Locations account.
The good news is that this should not affect everyone as much as other problems of this kind. This is because it only affects old devices, and if we have a GPS system purchased after 2010, it is very likely that we will not have the problem that will happen tomorrow. Modern systems allow for up to 8196 weeks, about 150 years, so we should not worry about it.
As always, updating GPS devices is one of the most important security recommendations. In addition, it allows us to avoid problems of this nature that are discovered over time and corrected. However, older models until 2010 are likely to have no support.
