GPS: 26 years since the night Clinton switched off the error

Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300

The GPS you use today — on your phone, in the car, in a running app — is fundamentally different from the GPS that existed until the end of 30 April 2000. Not in technology, not in satellites, not in infrastructure. The difference was a political decision signed by an American president who, one minute after midnight on 1 May 2000, ordered the shutdown of a deliberate error the United States government had been injecting into civilian GPS signals for years.

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GPS: 26 years since the night Clinton switched off the error