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Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug?

31 points by daenz 7y ago

Smok3dSalmon 7y ago
Seems kind of likely. https://imgur.com/a/2JvNdsy https://imgur.com/a/2JvNdsy
- zamadatix 7y ago
  Static image from the Twitter thread that says the same thing quicker https://twitter.com/Davis0036/status/1234605727223832576 https://twitter.com/Davis0036/status/1234605727223832576
  - Smok3dSalmon 7y ago
    Yep. The whole thing is hilarious. What a shitshow.
  - sarakayakomzin 7y ago
    the future of finance right in your pocket
ekampf1 7y ago
can anyone explain this? why are those 503s related to leap?
- daenz 7y ago
  The date in the request url is "2020-03-03"
1-6 7y ago
One code hangup probably costed this company everything. I'd hate to be the CTO right now.
- daenz 7y ago
  I'm surprised that nobody in the company said "Hey, this is a leap year, can our system handle Feb 29th?"
  - Test_patronum 7y ago
    Literally no one has ever said this, ever
    - zaphod12 7y ago
      That's untrue. I know a lot of people who have said that exact phrase....on February 28th.
moiz41510 7y ago
Yup checkout tweet in update. https://www.interestingsoup.com/robinhood-app-down/ https://www.interestingsoup.com/robinhood-app-down/
_air 7y ago
I wouldn’t jump to conclusions right away, this might be a bug in their web app rather than all clients.