Microsoft's Azure service toppled by garden-variety leap-year bug

Posted by BernardSwiss on Mar 3, 2012 11:11 AM
By Ars Technica
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Microsoft has confirmed that Wednesday's Windows Azure outage that left some customers in the dark for more than 12 hours was the result of a software bug triggered by the February 29 leap-year date that prevented systems from calculating the correct time. [i][size=12](Yes, I know this is Off Topic -- but how could I resist?) [/size][/i]

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