Are all the MS Zunes dying?

Re:Are all the MS Zunes dying? by shizcakes on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @09:39AM (#415484)

Thinking about this - I bet it's a Leap Year issue (some dumbass set a "days in the year" upper bound at 365 days) and since it was first released in 2006, this would be the first time it has occurred.

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Re:Are all the MS Zunes dying? by dangoldin on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @10:31AM (#415548)

It's odd that it's only affecting the 30GB version though. I would expect the software to be the same unless one version was just manufactured with different software.

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Re:Are all the MS Zunes dying? by tdonia on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @04:07PM (#415884)

i wonder if the leap second could be a catalyst, especially if the zune 'year' is really just a collection of seconds sectioned into 'days' meaning december 31st is an anomaly that has been encoded with 1 extra second.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9888226...

that wouldn't explain why it's only on the 30 though.

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