Steve Allen wrote on 2005-07-29 21:37 UTC:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB112258962467199210-H9je4Nilal4o52nbYCIbq6Em4,00.html
The article repeats an old urban legend:
In 1997, the Russian global positioning system, known as
Glonass, was broken for 20 hours after a transmission to
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Markus Kuhn writes:
And in 2003, a leap-second
bug made GPS receivers from Motorola Inc. briefly show customers the
time as half past 62 o'clock.
It conveniently omits the minor detail that this long preannounced
Motorola software bug actually manifested itself
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Van Baak writes:
WWV and WWVB and perhaps other national
systems transmit DUT1 as a 3- or 4-bit signed
number of 100 ms.
As does MSF/Rugby in the UK.
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