Hornaday, Tem SPAWAR wrote:
... 3. As has been pointed out, some receivers also implement a clever hack to determine date that looks at UTC Leap Second (LS) value, and chooses a date based on WN, TOW, and LS. That is, the receiver implements a sliding 1024-week window whose limits are determined by the current value of LS. Current date "will" then reside within this 1024-week window.
So, dropping leap seconds from UTC would cause these receivers to, eventually, go back 19 years on cold start? Hardly a major catastrophe but worth noting.
