December 31, 1999
Web posted at: 2:18 p.m. EST (1918 GMT)

(CNN) -- Two Internet sites set up to give users the precise time of day anywhere in the world got the time right -- but the year wrong -- as dates ticked over to January 1, 2000.

One site, swissinfo.net, gave the date as January 1, 19100 in cities including Auckland and Hong Kong.

Shortly after CNN noted the problem, the site apparently made changes -- first re-directing Internet users, then correcting the date. The site also got another number wrong, its telephone number. Calls to the listed number were answered by a remarkably polite Swiss woman who said she'd been getting several calls, but has absolutely no connection to the company.

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Another site, businesswindow.com, lists the date in cities including Beijing and Tokyo as 100-01-01 (cities still in 1999 are listed as 99-12-31). Calls to this site's phone number in British Columbia were answered by a recording.

Normally, the Y2K glitch manifests itself by rolling from 99 to 00, with reliant systems thinking 00 comes before 99. These sites were different in that they weren't confined to two digits for the year, but rather continued on to 100.

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