SEAN@dra.COM (Sean Donelan) 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?
Those wagering the GPS roller over would have fewer affects, I think you lost. Pioneer, Japan reports they have 450 people answering phones from customers with car GPS navigation systems which have failed. Japan's MITA estimates 95,000 units in Japan are affected. I couldn't find anything on the engligh-language Pioneer.co.jp web pages about the problem. The US Air Force reports the satellites and control system rolled over without incident. The US Coast Guard has received no reports of civilian problems within the USA this evening. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
Sean, It's too early to say with high confidence, but you had to stretch pretty far away from the question you asked (will it cause time problems with NTP, etc) to find a problem with the GPS rollover. General reports are that it went better than expected and that few critical systems were impacted. If you had asked whether anyone would be hit by the rollover, I would have said of course there were going to be systems and people hit. It may be fun to watch the PR wars that result. BTW, I knew one person who didn't fly this weekend because of the rollover, which seems a bit extreme to me. jerry
Hmm, may be someone compare the predicted trioubles and the real ones - how much predictions was not realised, how much realised in the real troubles, and which percent of the real troubles was not predicted at all? Good test before Y2K. On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 1:44:50 -0500 From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: cheap GPS
SEAN@dra.COM (Sean Donelan) 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?
Those wagering the GPS roller over would have fewer affects, I think you lost. Pioneer, Japan reports they have 450 people answering phones from customers with car GPS navigation systems which have failed. Japan's MITA estimates 95,000 units in Japan are affected. I couldn't find anything on the engligh-language Pioneer.co.jp web pages about the problem.
The US Air Force reports the satellites and control system rolled over without incident. The US Coast Guard has received no reports of civilian problems within the USA this evening. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
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