Thousands of Microsoft Zune MP3 player froze on New Year’s eve due to an error in the internal clock. This affected all users of the original 30gb version of the MP3 player.

Forums around the world exchanged a furry of comments and described the error as “Zune 30 meltdown” or “Z2k” in reference to the Y2k bug.

Microsoft has issued a statement that the internal clock has an error when handling the start of a leap year and the clock will automatically reset itself by the next day.

Not that many people will be using the MP3 player by 2013, but one wonders if that would be the next time the device freezes again.