[myself248]

Likewise, it's been suggested that the 19.6-year (1024-week) GPS epoch is pessimal. Rollover is infrequent enough to be ignored, but frequent enough to actually happen and cause problems.

Folks who know such things better than I do, have suggested that it would've been far better at like a 64-week rollover (or just chop it to 52 and leave part of the code space unused), that way everyone would have to have a plan for it. Nobody could claim they don't expect their hardware to be in use 64 weeks in the future therefore they can ignore rollover.

[ghaff]

Funnily enough, I had the Unix epoch time question come up with a customer (who makes very long-lived pseudo-embedded systems) come up in discussion last week.