[24859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cheap GPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Aug 20 06:11:02 1999
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 03:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <990819202634.c51e@SDG.DRA.COM> from "Sean Donelan" at Aug 19, 1999 08:26:34 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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> 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
