Hello, Lost the message of the author this post was meant for so please excuse the bandwidth. Thanks for the advisory! Yes...the 1900 is an issue, but not harmful for programs looking at the last two year digits until the year 2057 when the digits repeat. And yes, maybe the four digit year format should be used for all applications. As a known problem, programs will now have to test for it regardless of year format. On a related topic. USSPACECOM has stated they are not concerned about the format of TLEs until the year 2057 (as relates to epoch dates). Last 30 days (abridged) OIG/GSFC SATELLITE CATALOG ACTION REPORT 01-15-00 The following objects have been reported as decayed: Internatnl Designator CatNo Common Name Source LaunchDate DecayDate ------------ ----- ------------------------- ------ ---------- ---------- 1972-058T 07847 DELTA 1 DEB US 1972/07/23 1900/01/05 1993-015B 22564 ATLAS 1 CENTAUR R/B US 1993/03/25 1900/01/06 1994-029ZY 24620 PEGASUS DEB US 1994/05/19 1900/01/04 1998-046L 25423 PEGASUS DEB US 1998/08/02 1900/01/01 1972-058T 07847 DELTA 1 DEB US 1972/07/23 1900/01/05 1993-015B 22564 ATLAS 1 CENTAUR R/B US 1993/03/25 1900/01/06 1994-029ZY 24620 PEGASUS DEB US 1994/05/19 1900/01/04 1998-046L 25423 PEGASUS DEB US 1998/08/02 1900/01/01 My program's converted format 07847U DELTA 1 DEB 1972-058T 01/05/00 22564U ATLAS 1 CENTAUR R/B 1993-015B 01/06/00 24620U PEGASUS DEB 1994-029ZY 01/04/00 25423U PEGASUS DEB 1998-046L 01/01/00 07847U DELTA 1 DEB 1972-058T 01/05/00 22564U ATLAS 1 CENTAUR R/B 1993-015B 01/06/00 24620U PEGASUS DEB 1994-029ZY 01/04/00 25423U PEGASUS DEB 1998-046L 01/01/00 John Gardner,Jr Hoarder of TLEs gardjw@juno.com 76.98569 W 39.00195 N 62.484m ASL ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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