# The power of TV - China Y2K

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-tv-china-y2k/12404>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 1, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-tv-china-y2k/12404 "2000-01-01T20:01:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![starfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@starfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starfish)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-tv-china-y2k/12404/1 "2000-01-01T20:01:00Z")

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China does not use our calendar. Their new year is in two weeks. Yet they had a celebration 1/1/2000 just so they could get on TV. Isn’t that amazing?

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**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-tv-china-y2k/12404/2 "2000-01-01T20:05:00Z")

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The Bhuddist calendar doesn’t roll over for another 32,000 years or so, does it?

That said, China’s display was pretty breathtaking. I’ve always wanted to see the forbidden city in person.  
– Sylence

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I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-power-of-tv-china-y2k/12404/3 "2000-01-02T01:32:00Z")

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Yes, I saw it at 8am, very nice. Didn’t Tonga push their clock ahead an hour so they could be the first?