From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 31 23:39:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45CB937B41B for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:39:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0092.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.92] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16rwPo-0005jB-00; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:39:45 -0800 Message-ID: <3CA80E9E.B091200F@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:39:10 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vladimir Egorin Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPS time. References: <20020331091304.U40871-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020331.133402.125794917.imp@village.org> <20020331200524.A20933@math.uic.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vladimir Egorin wrote: > > Also keep in mind that the US governement reserves the right to turn > > off GPS at any time to selected regions of the globe. > > Hopefully European GPS project (Galileo) will provide an alternative. > It still has a long way to go though. Galileo strikes me as unnecessary, unless the receivers will be cheaper to get the same resolution. The 1 meter resolution seems a little poor, compared to differential. I guess if the U.S. government reserves the right to turn it off, then there's a reason to route around that... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message