@benjojo Wait, so is this in both the DVB spec and the spec for MPEG-TS? The latter has me concerned, since I think the North American digital TV spec (ATSC) also uses MPEG-TS.

@benjojo Is DVB-T2 the same?

@penguin42 @benjojo Yes it is, because it isn't the physical layer that's the problem. The AV and metadata streams are basically identical across DVB-{T,T2,S,S2,C}, and it's the MJD in the metadata tables that's the problem.

I bitched about this in about 2004, when I discovered it. It's mad.

@benjojo Everytime the battery runs out on my GPS unit I have to dig out a serial cable and a Windows 98 software to reset the time, as Garmin never thought you'd use it long enough for the GPS epoch to rollover.

@benjojo huh. I just read up a bit on this.

The era is never transmitted, Mills just relies on external means (filesystem timestamps, pre-existing RTC setting, build timestamp if must be) to get the expected local time close enough. Urgs.

I guess I’ll have to patch that into my Linux ports of rdate and openntpd. (BSD sets the clocktime to the root filesystem time if the latter is larger, at boot; Linux, e.g. on that RPi1 I got as gift, happily boots into January 1970 and then complains.)

@benjojo that is an odly specific small diference