Keelan@keelan@mastodon.sdf.org
@phloggen@expressional.social @anymouse_404@glitch.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social the receivers even have an EEPROM that stores a table of enabled features, they have a hidden password locked system for managing this EEPROM, they could have stored the epoch there in a single byte, but chose not to. Instead they deliberately made a firmware update the only way to fix the week number epoch.
Poul-Henning Kamp@phloggen@expressional.social
@keelan@mastodon.sdf.org @anymouse_404@glitch.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social
If it is a very early receiver, they are excused, nobody thought about the roll over problem until it happened first time - including the designers of the signal.