It was millennia ago when I first read "don't ship your own date/time library". Guess these fellas somehow missed it.
(I did this thing a while ago, but hopefully it doesn't count since it's a joke library)
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A decade ago Tom Scott was recorded for Computerphile with this hilarious an enlightening cautionary tale. Never, ever, write your own calendar code.
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Does your September library break on leap Septembers?
I honestly have no idea, it's been a while since I wrote it.
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
Someone forgot a case in their test suite.
I can't imagine what logic would've hinged on February having 28 days. It's not like 29 exceeds some maximum value for days in a month. Probably someone thought it was a good idea to write their own date-time library.
Next = (year+1, month, day)
Did they not have automatic pumps 4 years ago?
Y29
D29
That's one ticket they won't need to mark as urgent
Classic..
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The outage affected suppliers, including Allied Petroleum, BP, Gull, Waitomo, and Z Energy, and has reportedly been fixed.
The gas pump breakdown sent stakeholders into a frenzy as they tried to resolve the problem caused by software being unequipped to process the bonus day.
John Scott, the CEO of Invenco Group, the provider of the self-payment terminals that malfunctioned, confirmed to Reuters that a "leap year glitch" caused the problem.
Worldline claimed that all non-Invenco terminals using its technology continued to work during the outage, per Otago Daily Times.
While some gas stations were still able to accept other forms of payments, those that relied on the broken terminals found themselves missing out on business.
As the companies involved work to issue apologies—and, in some cases, discounts—to make up for the inconvenience, there's hope that the scale and embarrassment associated with the outage will help prevent similar events.
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More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition
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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.