Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug?

Posted by daenz on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:59PM
from the twitter.com dept.

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by Smok3dSalmon on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:11PM (#22470101)

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by zamadatix on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:25PM (#22470198)

Static image from the Twitter thread that says the same thing quicker https://twitter.com/Davis0036/status/1234605727223832576

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by Smok3dSalmon on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:27PM (#22470218)

Yep. The whole thing is hilarious. What a shitshow.

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by 1-6 on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:04PM (#22470851)

One code hangup probably costed this company everything. I'd hate to be the CTO right now.

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by daenz on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:42PM (#22471076)

I'm surprised that nobody in the company said "Hey, this is a leap year, can our system handle Feb 29th?"

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by Test_patronum on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:21AM (#22473031)

Literally no one has ever said this, ever

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by zaphod12 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @09:20AM (#22474602)

That's untrue. I know a lot of people who have said that exact phrase....on February 28th.

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by _air on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:49PM (#22471373)

I wouldn’t jump to conclusions right away, this might be a bug in their web app rather than all clients.

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by ekampf1 on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:45PM (#22470740)

can anyone explain this? why are those 503s related to leap?

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by daenz on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:43PM (#22471083)

The date in the request url is "2020-03-03"

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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by moiz41510 on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:18PM (#22470940)

Yup checkout tweet in update.

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