GPS rollover - are you ready?

[mattg at timesucker.ne.mediaone.net (Matthew Galster)]

Any unit manufactured before sometime in '94 may start having trouble today
as the updates come out to the sat's.

So says the GPS office at LA AFB.

MEG


> 
> 
> Just an FYI to anyone that relies on the Global Positioning System (GPS),
> the rollover is this weekend (midnight August 21-22).
> 
> http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/gps/geninfo/y2k/gpsweek.htm
> 
> For anyone not "in the know" about NTP & GPS, some references are:
> 
> 	Network Time Protocol
> 	http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
> 
> 	For a history on calendars:
> 	http://astro.nmsu.edu/%7elhuber/leaphist.html
> 
> 
> This was brought up as dinner conversation after last nights meeting.
> Shortly there-after, "E's Relativity on a paper napkin"...
> 
> - Christoph
> 
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