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GPS rollover - are you ready?



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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