Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day::“We’ll add it to our Outlook reminders…”
And THAT’S why you don’t roll your own datetime class/column format. It’s a solved problem, people!
Hahah, this reminds me of that time (long ago) when a very old version of our software would also simply crash when attempting to use it on a leap day. When customers called in, all we could do was tell them to wait until tomorrow, and that the problem wouldn’t return for at least another four years.
Y2K finally happened.
kiWi2K
Did they not have automatic pumps 4 years ago?
More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition
an updated and extended version of the original
The same happened at a grocery chain in my country. Not all of their stores stopped working but a lot of them.
The pay new terminals apparently didn’t like leap days.
You could apparently still pay by app at the stores that supported it though.
