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Aloha Everyone!

Here is the time to watch:)http://greenwich2000.co.uk/countdown/

Lokelo

-- Lokelo (lokelo@hotmail.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

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-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

That thing is surely screwed up! At 8PM Eastern (US) time, UTC is 0100, no buts, ifs, or maybe s.

That clock says 1hr, 1 min from the Year 2000, and its count increases. So far, so good ("from" goes both ways.)

Then it says 31 Dec 1999, 24.01.xx UTC. That time and date has yet to be standardized! We know it's no longer 1999, and a 24.01 hour time exists only for those who can't let go, for others its 00.01 UTC.

The programmers of that website didn't do a great job. I hope that's not the general quality of output from Y2k programmers!

-- W (me@home.now), December 31, 1999.


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