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The Year 2000 Team
Officially, the United States will enter the next millennium with the dropping of a time ball at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. on the eve of 2001. (The Gregorian calendar had no year zero.)
In 1830, the Navy introduced time balls to enable ships to check the timepieces used to determine longitude at sea. On the east coast of the United States, the year 2000 will be ushered in by the dropping of a similar, new Waterford crystal time ball in New York’s Times Square.
Year 2000 will arrive in New Zealand at 7 am eastern standard time on December 31, 1999, and events there will be monitored for early indicators of Y2K affects. Of special interest to technology professionals is the transition to 2000 at Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), 7 pm eastern standard time on December 31, 1999. Because many computer systems depend on GMT, it is possible for Y2K-related failures to propagate several hours in advance of the chronological arrival of the New Year.
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