Re: cheap GPS

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> bmanning () vacation karoshi COM writes:
> > http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/gps/geninfo/y2k/gpsweek.htm
> >
> >     Something to look forward to. :)
>
> Any predictions whether this will have more or fewer affects than
> NIST setting daylight savings time in the wrong month a few years
> ago on WWV/B?

        More. There are more receivers and more dependence on 
        accurate time, e.g. accounting, backups, ticketing.
        Somewhere, somebody, witha  "blind" dependence on the
        NTP presentation will be out of sync w/ their neighbors
        & themselves and at best will waste time argueing about 
        when something happened. At worst they'll overwrite critical 
        data that has financial implications...  I predict.
        Or I could just get/stay lost...

--bill