They occurred in Connecticut, New York, New Mexico, and Arkansas. Eight U.S. power plants out of 3,200 experienced glitches with clock synchronization for energy management systems. Considered non-critical, the feature does not affect power and has been corrected. Smaller plants may have had similar problems but did not report them. A 911 emergency telephone service in Charlotte, N.C., broke down Wednesday during last round of testing.
Local police report the problem has been fixed.
A dozen computer glitches reported to the Federal Aviation Administration are considered minor. Many errors disappeared after rebooting systems. Most were related to low-level Windshear Alert systems and occurred in Tampa, Denver, Atlanta, Orlando, Chicago and St. Louis at midnight, Dec. 31. Train symbols were entered manually and date was reset. The Pentagon reported that a reconnaissance satellite had been blinded for a few hours.