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USAF warms up Y2K operations cell for GPS rollover

Staff August 18, 1999
The U.S. Air Force today is slated to boot up its Y2K operational center for a dress rehearsal of the year-end calendar change. The move comes three days before the Global Positioning System satellites make their Aug. 21 rollover, resetting their internal clocks at the end of a 1,024 week cycle that...

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