> What that means is that on August 22, 1999 (next year), the count will
> overflow and will become week 0 again. Personal GPS units
> manufactured before
> 1996 and which are not manufactured by either Garmin
> International or Motorola
> are not guaranteed to have a proper software workaround in them. If they
> don't, the user's readout will instantly put the user 116
> trillion miles (19
> light-years) off of the surface of the Earth. If you were deep in
> the woods or
> far out to sea, that could be somewhat disorienting (so to speak :-).

And for us aviators...this could prove to be quite disconcerting - and quite
expen$ive to fix.

Here's hoping that a software upgrade comes out soon... meanwhile, my
receiver, which I use with a laptop (this very one I'm using in fact), is
Y2K compliant (thank goodness, as I can see myself flying to HPWorld in 1999
(wherever that is - I don't recall offhand) and ending up flying over Alaska
;)

Cheers,
Joe