Dillon and his newborn son Archer Glass each had a one in 1,461 chance of being born on a leap day

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I bet the (if my math is right) roughly 0.07% of people out there who have a birthday of February 29th run into so many weird one-off issues in software when doing normal stuff like applying for a job or a credit card or whatever.

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      9 months ago

      Yep!

      It’s generally gotten better in the last twenty years it used to be real bad on the early Internet. Very rarely nowadays I’ll run into a backend or frontend that won’t accept it.

      Source: turned ten a couple days ago.