Pocket Watch
This page identifies a few international websites to watch for information
through
the rollover and the following days, and through the year
to come. Also see what really happened!
We have some information about how governments and other public bodies
themselves plan to handle the rollover.
If you want to check when other timezones roll over, look at the Time
Zones links on our Pocket World page or
download
a table from ASET (needs Acrobat
Reader)
Also, here are some ideas what you need to go on
watching for through the year 2000.
Rollover and global command centres by time zone
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Watch New Zealand: the WatchNZ
website is New Zealand's National Y2K/Millennium Event & Emergency
Incident Monitoring System. It has been set up by the NZ Govermnent specifically
to capture events and provide early warning to the rest of the world (19
Nov 99)
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Australia's National Coordination
Centre will also provide potential early warnings - closed and public
access sections. Access to reports is via geography, there's no immediately
obvious single location for incident repoerts (22 Nov 99)
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The UK Government's Millennium
Centre is active from midday on 29th December. It takes over from the
Foreign
& Commonwealth Office the monitoring of overseas Y2K incidents.
It will monitor and publish bulletins (29 Dec 99)
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Also the UK Rollover
plans are in the public domain on the Cabinet Office website - contingency
plans for all Government departments (19 Nov 99)
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The US Government's Y2K commission's Information
Coordination Center (ICC)will similarly provide a Federal site which
will be watching internationally, not just within the US, and will also
monitor vendors. Check their links
page for incidents and sector reports (19 Nov 99/4 Jan
'00)
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The UN's International Y2K Cooperation
Center (IY2KCC) maintains a Global
Status Watch (10 Jan 00)
Other sources
Leon Kappelman points out that telecommunications equipment east of GMT
in the world uses GMT time in its internal processors instead of local
time. "Follow the sun" may not be much help for telecomms, therefore!
The Internet will be monitored by the Internet
Operators Group in an operation called Silent
Night (20 Dec 1999)
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Watch on!
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31st December 1999: rollover starts on the other side of the world (well,
I'm in the UK)
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1st January 2000: anything that could fall over if it rolls back to an
invalid date
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up to 6th January 2000 inclusive: the first Saturday, Sunday, Monday ...
for day-of-week failures
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First day back at work (4th Jan probably)
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First run of any financial or planning system (month end, pay processing,
...)
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Start of new tax year (6th April perhaps)
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Leap Year day (29th Feb) and 1st-7th March inclusive (day-of-week failures
possible) and Day 366 errors if Leap
Year not recognised
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Year end processing around 31 Dec 2000 (problems may not arise on 31 Dec
1999)
A more comprehensive list
of problem dates is provided by MITRE
(20 Dec 1999)
What really happened?
All the date glitches: see The
Original
Y2K Screenshot Page (5 Jan '00)
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