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Probably not if they were all off by the same amount.

Position is based on relative difference between time signals received from different satellites, not absolute.

This error only occurred on a certain revision of GPS satellites, not all of them. It would have been a problem, except luckily the error was only on a message for determining UTC. The error did not affect the message or clock that are used in determining position.

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