Some of us may be a bit bleary-eyed from too much partying, but hopefully the fridge will be cold and the house will be warm. The car will start and the phone will work. Then we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief and start worrying about more important things, like remembering to write the correct year on our checks. Historians and mathematicians tell us the new millennium technically doesn't begin until January 1, 2001. At the stroke of midnight this coming December 31st, all four numbers on the calendar will change at once, something no living person has ever seen or will ever see again.
Some people feel there is more to it than that.
However, most Americans feel it is much ado about nothing. True to their optimistic nature, most Americans express positive feelings about the future. Christians in particular have long associated the coming millennium with the biblical end of the world. But our survey gives no evidence that believers view these events as necessarily linked to the year 2000. In a 1997 survey, half the executives we interviewed said Y2K would be a significant problem for their company.