In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes: >The inclusion of calendar year is an interesting addition to the >original week-based scheme. The week-based scheme was perhaps chosen >while noting that the week remained intact when Pope Gregory (and >then, eventually, all the protestants) switched calendars.
I think you are far overestimating 1970 electronics :-) The week based scheme was a compromise forced by number of bits available and how much electronics could be dedicated to the task of receiving the signals. For a long time the almanac was something you had to manually enter into the receive (which is probably why almanacs are still published by the GPS control segment people). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
