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Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day (arstechnica.com)

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Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day::"We'll add it to our Outlook reminders..."

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[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Someone forgot a case in their test suite.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

Next = (year+1, month, day)