GREENWICH site COuntdown clock STOPPPS! at 1 second. Still 1999!

-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

Fixed itself about 2 minutes later.

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), December 31, 1999.

No it didn't stop its working fine: http://greenwich2000.co.uk/countdown/

-- Fred (Fred@sigh.net), December 31, 1999.

It did stop for 107 seconds or so -- but it wasn't Y2K related.

-- Roch Steinbach (rochsteinbach@excite.com), December 31, 1999.

The people that are manually typing the time in had to stop for a couple minutes to kiss each other. :-)

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 31, 1999.

I just looked at the Clock and it is currently 31 December 1999 What is up?

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

Sorry...but this clock is running backwards right now and I do not think it will ever see 2000 at this rate...

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

Pardon me, but why is the clock running backwards?

-- david (dcarroll@deniz.com), December 31, 1999.

It looks to me like this site is counting up AND down in the same direction. The clock counting DOWN to the millenium ("minutes, seconds to go")and the clock counting UP to the millenium ("December 31, 23rd hour 54st minute 23rd second" etc) are going in the same direction.

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-- Huh? (huh?@whatsup.com), December 31, 1999.

No the clock is counting "up" away "from" the big Rollover Event, and tracking time elapsed since Y2K. Note it says "from" not "until". HOWEVER!!! as you pointed out earlier Uncle Bob, the calendar still reads December 31, 1999 and indicates there is about 35 minutes to go until rollover. Check the UTC countdown clock at 1:00 a/m/ GMT and see what happens to their calendar next hour. Perpetually stalled? Certainly not TEOTWAWKI, but token solace to see the ATOMIC COUNTDOWN 2000 CLOCK fudged up.

Is it a time warp, then?

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), December 31, 1999.

The clock is running up the seconds, it will not reach 2000--it's going the wrong way. The time, at 7:25 EST (now) says Dec 31 23:30

-- mar (derigueur2@aol.com), December 31, 1999.

Maybe it's counting back to the Middle Ages?

c'mon! Give me a break! Trying to be humorous here..... : )

-- Wilferd (WilferdW@aol.com), December 31, 1999.

An hour in and its still 31 Dec 1999

-- 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!

There we have it! ALL is A OK!!! Back to the celebrations.

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