[tz] timezone-related error sparks $340 million lawsuit

[Paul Eggert]

In "US man sues Powerball lottery after being told his apparent $340m 
win was error"[1], Maya Yang reported in today's Guardian that a mistake 
caused by a quality-assurance team checking timezone configuration for a 
Powerball lottery website has snowballed into a $340 million lawsuit 
against the lottery.

Due to the mistake, in which a test version of the website was loaded 
with random numbers, the lottery's production website temporarily 
displayed the wrong winning numbers. A man whose ticket matched those 
numbers is now suing the lottery for the $340 million prize, saying he 
is the rightful winner.

Yang reported that the errant QA team was testing "a task involving a 
changing of time zones for the Powerball website from Coordinated 
Universal Time to Eastern Standard Time."

[1]: 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/18/man-sues-powerball-lottery-win-error