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by poizan42 4329 days ago
Or the "OpenOffice can't print on Tuesdays" bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
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That one reminds me of the system I worked on years ago that wouldn't accept credit cards that expired in August or September (of any year).
I bet it was a Javascript system that tried to interpret month numbers of 08 and 09 as octal because of the leading zero. Am I close?