In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>> The cached information isn't very useful when the GPS receiver has been
>> off for a while. Coming up on a cold-spare GPS receiver requires that
>> you wait.
>
>True, but considering that the IERS announcement comes out over 5 months 
>in advance and that the GPS operations fairly quickly enters it into the 
>system, you can with some good certainty know if you may have missed it 
>and is affected.

I think you should read "off for a while" as "the 10 years it sat on
a shelf as a spare part"

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