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Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day::"We'll add it to our Outlook reminders..."

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[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

The same happened at a grocery chain in my country. Not all of their stores stopped working but a lot of them.

The pay new terminals apparently didn't like leap days.

You could apparently still pay by app at the stores that supported it though.

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