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Leap year software glitch closes fuel pumps across New Zealand (www.straitstimes.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12545090

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Y2K finally happening!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I'll never forget seeing "Y2K compatible" flashlights in the dollar store.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Someone wrote their own date library.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago

Don't hate the player. Hate the organization that requires several levels of justification meetings and approvals for adding any 3rd party library.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

[Insert Tom Scott Video Here]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

All those Kiwis better make sure their gas tanks are full before Dec. 31st. Because if the software can't handle February with 29 days, it probably ca t handle a year with 366 days either.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why does the fuel pump need to know what date it is?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

So they can log how much is being used, track how old it is, etc.

Why wouldn’t a company want to have the date alongside their inventory and sales.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cause the actual date doesn't matter.

You log epoch time, and convert as needed.

Though the as-needed convert may be the issue.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Epoch Fail!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Surely you can do all that without tying the functioning of the entire pumping system directly to the time stamp though, right?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

According to the article, it's the payment processing system.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I want a system which rolled their own date handling holding my credit card details. Wanna bet they rolled their own crypto too?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Well, I think it's not about what we want at all. It's about what they can get away with while not affecting the CEO's compensation.

We're just the livestock they harvest money from.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Was this just cos they cross the date line first and thus the bug was fixed before anyone else had to deal with it. Plus laughs in australian

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

smirks in Australian

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Leap Day William at it again!