Leap year software glitch closes fuel pumps across New Zealand
Leap year software glitch closes fuel pumps across New Zealand
www.straitstimes.com Leap year software glitch closes fuel pumps across New Zealand
Fuel suppliers Z Energy, Allied Petroleum and Gull said only staffed stations could process payments. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Someone wrote their own date library.
Never write your own date library
I was thinking to myself that this system MUST be less than 4 years old or it would have happened last February 29.
I hit a similar bug today where I had used
SYSDATE - NUMTOYMINTERVAL(2, 'year')in Oracle. I don't remember why I didn't use
sysdate - 2*365instead, which works without problems for my use case (I don't care about one day more or less). But I would have appreciated if the compiler or the IDE would have yelled at me.classic!