Re: GPS

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Brian C wrote:
> In the Sydney Sun-Herald on sunday 11th they had an article on the
> millenium bug and they referred to Global Position Systems and in a
> short one liner they made a statement thet the GPS system had a glitch
> 132 days before the 1/1/2000. That was all they said.
> 
> What are the consequences of this glitch for those of us who use the GPS
> to atlas ?

GPS manufacturers seem to be claiming that there receivers will operate
correctly through the GPS rollover at midnight on August 21 1999 as to do
the GPS system operators. 

If they are wrong the most plausible failure is that a GPS receiver will
fail for some hours on August 22 and then resume working correctly.

Andrew Taylor