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Jan 1, 2000 - 01:41 AM

Nation's Official Timekeeper Says Year Is '19100' The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - In an ironic Y2K computer glitch, the nation's official timekeeper reported the date as "19100" during the earliest hours of the new year on its Internet site.

The U.S. Naval Observatory, whose master clock in Washington serves as the nation's official source of time, published a Web page to track the time - down to the precise second - exactly as the century ended.

But a bug in the programming of the Web site informed visitors that the current date for U.S. time zones that had already passed midnight was Jan. 1, 19100.

No one from within the Naval Observatory's computer department could be reached immediately for comment.

The government relies upon the Naval Observatory to determine precisely the positions and motions of the Earth, moon, planets and stars to calculate the exact time.

AP-ES-01-01-00 0135EST

-- Casey DeFranco (caseyd@silcom.com), January 01, 2000

Answers

The UK one is just as bad.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 01, 2000.

Ironic isn't quite the word I'd have chosen. I see the fine fellows over at the debunker forum are laughing at their own 1/1/100 date.

Hope they're still laughing in 3-6 months.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), January 01, 2000.