Re: Rollover

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn,

>The  AS/400  system date  counter as I understand it will  rollover thru
>000000  as we pass  thru  midnight 12-31-99. I suspect this is good news.
Of course, you know better than that!  On Y2K OS/400's (at least), the system
date will never see 000000, but will go from 12/31/1999 to 01/01/2000.

>In much the same manner the GPS  system  rolled thru 0000 weekend as it
>counted past 1024 weeks this week end. The  only reports of  problems so
>far, were a few hundred  active car navigation systems,in Japan, during the
>transition.
Again, no comparison to OS/400!

However, was I the only one who thought it unusual the shortsightedness of
whoever designed the GPS system to count only 1024 weeks?  Add one more 8-bit
byte, and you rollover once every 315 years!

Just wondering.

- Dan Bale





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