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Re: mini Y2K?



Bob,

I suspect that the software and avionics in commercial airliners all
use GMT... otherwise they would be resetting their clocks every hour or so
on east-west trips.

Mark Shapiro
The Irascible Professor
http://www.IrascibleProfessor.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Sciamanda [mailto:trebor@VELOCITY.NET]
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 3:39 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: mini Y2K?


This is probably the bizarre speculation of a twisted mind (I hope so!),
but from the divulged timing it struck me that the crash of the Egyptian
flight 990 may have occurred precisely when its computer software made the
change from "daylight savings" to "standard" time!

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor