2024-02-29T05:10:09+00:00
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/ Gas stations and a payment services company in New Zealand announced that a number of petrol pumps stopped working in the country on Thursday, due to a glitch in the payment software because the current year was a leap year.
Allied Fuel, JAL, Z Energy and BP have confirmed that their self-service fuel pumps across New Zealand are not working due to problems with the propulsion system used.
The system went down due to a “leap year glitch,” said John Scott, CEO of Invenco Group, a payment software solutions provider.
Scott said a solution has now been found and it just needs to be rolled out to affected fuel pumps across the country.
New Zealand is one of the first countries to start a new day due to time differences between countries, so the problem associated with the presence of February 29, which comes once every 4 years, appeared there before others this year.
Scott said this was simply an issue with the New Zealand code, and while Invenco had no definitive information on how it happened, it would investigate the glitch in the coming days.