Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound

Re:Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound by sjc33 on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:19PM (#22469130)

My theory is that this was a leap year bug.

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Re:Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound by Moeancurly on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:23PM (#22469687)

You could very well be right, according to this[0] post on Twitter:

> Hey @RobinhoodApp did someone forget to add isleap() to your python module? Imagine losing thousands of dollars because someone didn’t code for the leap year. It’s looking for 3/03 data and throwing errors out the ass. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESIuB4nXYAAYImF?format=jpg

[0]: https://twitter.com/jtech63/status/1234600045787394048

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Re:Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound by ceedan on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:40PM (#22469349)

Or because Sunday starts daylight savings time.

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Re:Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound by notyourday on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:43PM (#22469867)

That's next Sunday

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Re:Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound by sjc33 on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:49PM (#22469426)

Leap year is a more likely snag here.

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