Article 6K6H5 Error'd: Time for more leap'd years

Error'd: Time for more leap'd years

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Lyle Seaman
from The Daily WTF on (#6K6H5)

Inability to properly program dates continued to afflictvarious websites last week, even though the leap day itself had passed.Maybe we need a new programming language in which it'simpossible to forget about timezones, leap years, or Thursday.

Timeless Thomas subtweeted "I'm sure there's a great date-related WTF story behind this tweet"Gosh, I can't imagine what error this could be referring to.

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Data historian Jonathan babbled"Today, the 1st of March, is the start of a new tax yearhere and my brother wanted to pull the last years worthof transactions from a financial institution to declarehis taxes. Of course the real WTF is that they only allow up to 12 months."I am not able rightly to apprehend the confusion of ideas that could provoke such an error'd.

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Ancient Matthew S.breathed a big sigh of relief on seeing this result: "Good to know that I'm up to date as of 422 years ago!"

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Jaroslaw gibed "Looks like a translation mishap... What if I didn't knew English?"Indeed.

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Hardjay vexillologistJulien casts some shade without telling us where to direct our disdain"I don't think you can have dark mode country flags..."He's not wrong.

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