From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f8c318eb567dfc20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: RSWhite@nospam.somewhere.ia.com (Robert S. White) Subject: Re: Y2K comes early (was Re: ada c c ++ software engineer) Date: 1998/09/25 Message-ID: <6uh1db$gp72@onews.collins.rockwell.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 394884202 References: <6tpl2c$t$1@news.mainstreet.net> <1998Sep17.092746.1@eisner> <6ttm05$kf0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Organization: ... Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , eachus@spectre.mitre.org says... > > And it will follow by a few days the August 22, 1999 GPS clock >rollover, so there will be two "wake-up calls" in three weeks. >Unfortunately, the remaining time may be too short to fix things. This has been discussed (to death) in sci.geo.satellite-nav. If you are really interested fire up your web browser and browse Deja News for that topic. In short, this rollover has been in test suites for years - using GPS Satellite Signal Simulators - and you have to have a old model from just a few manufacturers before you would experience the problem. I have seen designs take this rollover into account and not have any problems, that were done back in the '80s. _____________________________________________________________________ Robert S. White | My own opinions only White.R (shift2) McLeodUSA net | An Embedded Systems SWE RSWhite (shift2) Collins Rockwell com | GPS & INS