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.

Cmdr. Carl Rusnok of the Naval Observatory said the service's master clock was not affected by the problem, and that Navy officials were working to repair the Web-page programming.

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.

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

Answers

It's over, we're dead.

Break out the beans and rice!! Start killing your neighbors!!

-- (mordred@metsil.net), January 01, 2000.

a similar story

Maybe they decide to go ahead and use 5 digits so they wouldn't have to fix everything again in the year 9999!

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 01, 2000.

THIS IS THE BEST YOU CAN DO????Put down the beer and the glue for a minute and take a look outside. While the world seems truly appreciative that the power is still on, it also means that it has to put up with your mental masturbation on message boards. You've 'outed yourself' as a paranoid killjoy who just can't let go of your philosophies.

I don't even think my cat will allow me to place your prepubescent panderings in his litter box anymore.

Hey, re-direct your focus. What about these contrails above your house????

-- Bad Company (laughing@therube.com), January 01, 2000.

Hehehehe... Freakin' morons using Microsoft servers should expect to have problems like this.

Only fools use IIS.

:) ttt

-- Toaster T. Toaster (toaster@null.com), January 04, 2000.