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Sony says hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Leap_year_bug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Leap_year_bug And Apple can't even handle reg
by tjoff 15y ago
Sony says hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Leap_year_bug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Leap_year_bug
And Apple can't even handle regular years or daylight time: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/01/apple_admits_new_years_alarm_bug.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/01/apple_admits_n...
And handling this in a phone or game device should be about as difficult as on a clock... A cloud on the other hand is much more difficult, as google points out: http://googleblog.blogspot.se/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html http://googleblog.blogspot.se/2011/09/time-technology-and-le...
Claiming that Microsofts progammers didn't even anticipate a leap year is kind of pathetic. Sure, it might have been an unnecessary bug (whether it was or not is not possible to decide from that article), but most bugs are...
- mibbitier 15y agoSure, it happens in other areas too. But the last place you want it happening is on a hosting platform. The consequences of your hosting being down are larger than not getting an alarm on your iphone or being able to connect to PSN.