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Summary: As the world population clock ticks past 7 billion, alarm bells are ringing.

Other countries will be watching closely to see if they can learn anything from what happens in New Zealand once the clock ticks past midnight," he said.

As the clock ticks past midnight on December 31, 1999 computers will read the New Year as 1900 - and switch everything off.

As the clock ticks past midnight on December 31, 1999, many software-driven systems may respond as though the year 1900 followed 1999, potentially wreaking havoc with normal operations in virtually every sector of the economy.

But as Captain Hook found in Peter Pan, time quickly ticks past...