GPS `Rollover' Passes
The first big test for the Global Positioning System in advance of Y2K turned out to be a non-event. GPS users and industry and government officials watched expectantly at 13 sec. before midnight GMT on Saturday, Aug. 21, to see whether the internal clocks in GPS receivers would malfunction or reset...
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