GPS bug threat.

GPS bug threat. - 1999 - Guardian 17 August 1999, 7 Financial Times 19 August 1999, 10(5) Daily Telegraph 16 August 1999, 1&32; .

Warns that satellite navigational equipment using the global positioning satellite system (GPS) is set to fail on 21 August due to a millennium bug in its timing mechanism. Includes a description of GPS and a summary of potential problems it failure occurs. Diagram.


MILLENNIUM BUG