[tz] NZ Leap Day Self Pay Petrol Pump Failures
Paul Gilmartin
PaulGBoulder at AIM.com
Fri Mar 1 14:30:39 UTC 2024
On 2/29/24 14:22:47, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
> In related news, leap day also broke the issuance of driver's licenses in four prefectures in Japan. This occurred at about 20:15 local time, or 11:15 UTC, so it's not clear how the leap day caused the problem - perhaps a once-a-day app run after the end of the work day?
>
> https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20240229-171789/
>
I could imagine such a problem's arising from an attempt to compute
the expiration date by adding an odd number of years to the
issue date.
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gil
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