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Story: Microsoft's Azure service toppled by garden-variety leap-year bugTotal Replies: 4
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feistyfeline

Mar 05, 2012
2:11 AM EST 		lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten...except if you are Microsoft, then, it doesn't matter.
Bob_Robertson

Mar 06, 2012
11:32 AM EST 		Don't worry, there will be a patch put into Windows to accommodate this, just like the 1900 bug in Excel.
dinotrac

Mar 07, 2012
8:17 AM EST 		@BR -

Yes, I understand the patch has already been tested and works like a champ, except on March 29, April 29...
caitlyn

Mar 07, 2012
9:36 AM EST 		I wonder how bad their handling of the Hebrew/Jewish calendar is. it's a lunar calendar with a leap month. In leap years the entire month of Adar is repeated :) Oh, and yeah, there is FOSS software for the Jewish calendar (libhdate, ghcal, hcal, etc...) that works brilliantly and has done for years.
gus3

Mar 07, 2012
10:14 PM EST 		NIH == Not Invented Here? or, Not In Hebrew?

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