Comments on: Why the PS3 (and I) got its dates wrong http://www.jon-reed.co.uk/2010/03/02/why-the-ps3-got-its-dates-wrong/ The ramblings of a Web Developer Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:13:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dilapper http://www.jon-reed.co.uk/2010/03/02/why-the-ps3-got-its-dates-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-27 dilapper Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:06:26 +0000 http://www.jon-reed.co.uk/?p=119#comment-27 So, using this ISO year, would you have fallen foul of the same bug they had, where (I believe) it thought 2010 was a leap year? Because all I could work out from that stackOverflow article was that the first week of 2010 is actually the 53rd week of the ISO-year 2009. That all makes sense, but left me wondering why it would cause problems now (or rather, yesterday). Does that explain why 01/03/2010 caused such a problem? So, using this ISO year, would you have fallen foul of the same bug they had, where (I believe) it thought 2010 was a leap year?

Because all I could work out from that stackOverflow article was that the first week of 2010 is actually the 53rd week of the ISO-year 2009. That all makes sense, but left me wondering why it would cause problems now (or rather, yesterday).

Does that explain why 01/03/2010 caused such a problem?

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