That's right - the millennium is still more than two years away. Despite that technicality, people throughout the world anticipate New Year's Day 2000 quite like no other they have celebrated.
Travel agents can attest to that.
It's the calendar event of our lifetimes, and people are planning vacations to match. Some well-heeled travelers are so excited about the year 2000 that they want to celebrate it twice. Not if you cross the international dateline more than once. Royal Caribbean International's 21-night Legend of the Seas cruise will cross the dateline twice, allowing passengers two New Year's celebrations. That's because they may erroneously recognize the year 2000 as 1900.