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Glitch takes down petrol stations around country (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 9 months ago by Ilovethebomb to c/offtopic

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I find this absolutely hilarious.

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[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It could be even simpler.

If they couldn't put the date as 29th Feb yesterday most card payment machines wouldn't allow them to connect. Especially if it was "March 1st"

Much like the reasons for the "leap second smear" Tom mentions at the end of that video. Banks really care about continuity and knowing the order of events.

[–] Dave 4 points 9 months ago

But what series of events could possibly lead to there being no February 29? As Tom mentions in the video, you don't do this stuff yourself, there's no reason to build that yourself.

My new guess is they had the year set wrong and no one noticed until now.