Deborah PickettHappy Test Your Leap Year Handling In Production Day to all the software that was written in the last 1460 days.
Anders Norén@futzle The largest grocery store chain in Sweden, Ica, can't handle card payments today because the software doesn't handle leap days.
railmeat@violanders @futzle It is a leap year, no could have expected that.
Ian K Tindale@violanders @futzle …because it was never tested, to protect against the fundamentally simplistic and frighteningly stunted world view of computer programmers who fell into their jobs still thinking with all the maturity of school children that to move past some immediate problem “all you have to do is…” or “simply do…” or “that’s easy, just…” and you’ll never have to return to this problem again because they spent 15 seconds thinking the whole scenario through and did the first thing they thought of
Fraser@violanders @futzle ditto some EFTPOS terminals in New Zealand - self service petrol station ones I believe.
Janeishly@violanders @futzle Does that mean the stuff I just bought using a credit card in my local ICA will be free? If only I'd known, I would have bought the extortionately priced olive oil I actually went in for.
@Janeishly @futzle I think they have fixed it now.