Specifically mentioned Auckland and Wellington. No link I have found. No mentioning that it was Y2K -- says it is wind.

-- Paul (paul@fakehome.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

So NBC television broadcast? (I don't watch much tv, sorry)

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), December 31, 1999.

In talking to a colleague that lives there about 15 minutes ago, he told me their entire Cellular Network is out.

-- Jay (havocuz@mindspring.com), December 31, 1999.

Heh heh.. take a look at the link here and notice the date. Sorry, but I'm hot link impaired.

http://www.swissinfo.net/cgi/worldtime/clock.pl?Chatham,New=Zealand

-- Jay (havocuz@mindspring.com), December 31, 1999.

I guess NZ is on a year of its own. 19100? What's that?

-- Diane (DDEsq2002@juno.com), December 31, 1999.

Linkmaster,

All I can say about the link you showed, other than it is great, is BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa

-- (cannot-say@this.time), December 31, 1999.

A bit of info on the small power failure in New Zealand:

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000us/y2kcrisiscenter_main.html

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Y2K Information Center Update

Sam Donaldson Reports from Federal Nerve Center

By Sam Donaldson

ABCNEWS.com

W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 31  Check back here for continuous updates from the presidents Y2K Information Center.

All Quiet On the Eastern Front

Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand have reported no serious Y2K-related incidents, according to the International Y2K Cooperation Center. All systems are reported normal, according to the IY2KCC. National Y2K coordinators in some 170 countries are reporting to the Center on the status of critical sectors such as energy, communications and air and sea transportation.

Glitch in Swiss Web site

Its still 1999 in Switzerland, but a Swiss business information Web site has already been bitten by the Y2K bug. Swissinfo.net, which provides current times around the world, shows the date in New Zealand, where its already 2000, as Saturday, January 1, 19100.

All Clear at Nuclear Reactors in Russia

The first commercial nuclear power plant has entered the new millennium. The plant named Bilibino in Magadan, Russia, headed into 2000 at 7 a.m. ET with no reported problems of any kind in its four nuclear reactors. There are 21 Soviet-built plants with 65 reactors in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. At 4 p.m. ET, the last one will ring in the new year.

Small Power Failure in New Zealand

The first power failure of the new year has been reported in New Zealand, the first industrialized nation to enter the new millennium. The outage occurred at a water plant in Morrinsville, a town in the northern region of the country. The cause of the power outage is unknown and may not be Y2K-related.

Happy New Millennium New Zealand!

At 6 a.m. ET New Zealand became the first industrialized nation to ring in the new year. But, as the clocks struck midnight in Auckland, the governments Web site for reporting Y2K-related incidents went down. The site was reportedly locked up for six minutes, from 12:00 to 12:06 a.m. local time. But the outage wasnt due to the much- feared Y2K computer bug; the site was simply overloaded from too much traffic.

Live From Y2K Central

Were here at the Y2K Information Coordination Center (ICC) in Washington, D.C., the governments central point for gathering, analyzing and releasing Y2K-related information. This facility cost $50 million to set up and operate. There are 75 news organizations represented here, along with over 200 staffers from the presidents Y2K Council and various federal agencies, as well as a number of representatives from private industries. Your ABCNEWS.com team will be here around the clock to bring you the latest breaking Y2K developments.

Sam Donaldson, veteran ABCNEWS anchor and host of SamDonaldson@ABCNEWS.com, the first network news program for the Internet, is providing continuous updates from the U.S. governments Y2K Crisis Center in Washington, DC, for the duration of the ABC2000 millennium broadcast. He will also host a three-hour special report, Dawn of the New Century, Saturday morning, January 1, 2000, beginning at 8 a.m. ET, on ABC.

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-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), December 31, 1999.