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Hello Time People! <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Apologies in advance, as I know this is a bit off-topic being not about time zones, but I know that many of you are invested in date and time
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I've been invested in the last many months on preventative measures against leap year bugs, both in my day job at Microsoft and in the public space. Some of my
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57530882/what-are-some-examples-of-leap-year-bugs">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57530882/what-are-some-examples-of-leap-year-bugs</a><br>
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<a href="https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-life-cycle-of-a-leap-year-bug/">https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-life-cycle-of-a-leap-year-bug/</a><br>
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<a href="https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2016-leap-day-bugs/">https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2016-leap-day-bugs/</a><br>
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<a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/is-your-code-ready-for-the-leap-year/">https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/is-your-code-ready-for-the-leap-year/</a><br>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Sometimes I feel like I'm overreacting, but then I remember the infamous 2012 Azure cloud leap day outage, and all the </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">many
other things across the industry that were impacted in 2016 (see my list above).</span><br>
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My question for the community is this: Why are Y2K and Y2038 bugs such a hot topic when they are/were one-time events, but yet leap year bugs are rarely discussed even though they are recurring and can have critical impact? People seem to remember 20 years
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Are any of you working on leap year related issues? Have you checked your date math for leap year bugs? If not, why?</span><br>
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