[24917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cheap GPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex P. Rudnev)
Mon Aug 23 06:27:30 1999
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:11:50 +0400 (MSD)
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@Relcom.EU.net>
To: Jerry Scharf <scharf@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990820092951.25377G-100000@sh.lh.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Alex P. Rudnev wrote:
>
> > Through I did not see anything to worry about - your GPC may be show you
> > the wrong date, but why it can affect the accuracy at all (except some
> > short time around the very moment itself).
> >
>
> This is not true. There is things called the catelog and ephemerus, which
> are time based and give detailed corrections of the orbital position of
Quite agree; any global timing will be wrong and it at least affect the
accuracy of positioning.
Through it's just another example of the fact that Y2K is not Y-2000
problem at all; it's a problem of the limited clock counters... Let's
wait until 2038 or (better) 2106 year -:).
