Well, a big one will be in 2017 when all our Tbolts roll over. I have
included some code in the next version of Lady Heather to compensate. If it
detects a year from the unit before 2015, it converts the date/time to Julian,
adds 1024 weeks worth of seconds, and then converts the date/time back to
Gregorian. You can also specify a user defined rollover adjustment (in
seconds). One issue that I have seen is the Tbolt occasionally spitting out a
bogo-year and triggering a false/premature rollover... still trying to track
that down.
People using Tbolts for things like NTP servers will have to implement a
similar fix...
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Don't think it's _that_ much code though. There's some open source ACM date
algorithms, and it would be easy enough to implement a quick and dirty fix,
adding a number of days offset, while the rest of the algorithm is tested. Will
the next time this problem reoccurs be another 20 years?
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