Will last night's GPS date-based rollover get you lost today?

Most likely you won't be affected, but due to the strange way that Global Positioning Systems (GPS) measure time, some devices were at risk of being reset yesterday at 7:59 pm EDT. GPS systems affected could be reset back to January 6th, 1980. This is a risk because devices using GPS measure time by counting weeks, but they only have enough storage to count 1,024 weeks (nearly 20 years).

According to Bloomberg, the last time GPS systems were in this position was back in August 1999. Most of the public had never even heard of GPS back then, and it wasn't until apps ...

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