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From: "Daniel R. Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] what time is it, legally?
> On 13 Dec 2006 at 21:43, Steve Allen wrote:
>
> > http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.january01.pdf
>
> One quibble
On Thu 2006-12-14T08:45:12 -0500, Daniel R. Tobias hath writ:
> Actually, GPS arises from our obsession with
> knowing what *place* we're at; its need for precise time is a mere
> technical detail of its implementation.
I am often amused by online complaints that someone's handheld GPS
has the tim
>From its outset, GPS was intended to provide position, velocity and time
(PVT). In some of his public talks, one of the people credited with inventing
GPS, Brad Parkinson, renames GPS to GPtS to drive the point home that it is a
positioning and timing service.
-- Richard Langley
On Thu, 14 Dec 20
On 13 Dec 2006 at 21:43, Steve Allen wrote:
> http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.january01.pdf
One quibble with that article is that it gives the Global Positioning
System as an example of how humanity has been obsessed with knowing
what time it is. Actually, GPS arises from our obsessi
