submitted 7 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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The game apparently stopped working today due to the leap year. This is why you use popular date/time libraries instead of making your own lol.

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[-] bozo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

It's a leap day bug, an easy to overlook programming quirk.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Another really fun category of time bugs is caused by assuming that all days have 24 hours. Daylight Saving Time change days have 23 or 25 hours.

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