Come on now. Date bugs are very common. In the area of date bugs, leap year, rollover case bugs etc are very common. It's extremely simple to just check the st

Come on now. Date bugs are very common. In the area of date bugs, leap year, rollover case bugs etc are very common. It's extremely simple to just check the startup procedure, and make sure that nothing can go terribly wrong. Look for possible infinite loops, stack overflows, erroneous jumps etc standard testing stuff. I discovered a date rollover bug in windows 98, which got some press at the time (Day after it released, I was working at a y2k company). This one wasn't quite as bad, just turned out that if you startup your windows 98 PC at a little before midnight (On any day), it messes up the date and thinks its the wrong day. I'm sure there are other companies that don't test things properly, but excusing it isn't helpful. Heck why didn't microsoft just write the code themselves instead of relying on someone else for that? It's pretty simple code. Keep excusing them if you like, but it's just sloppy. I'd be amazed if something like that happened to the iPod, because Apple are anal about having complete control of everything, and it shows.