Microsoft confirmed late Feb. 29 that a service outage that affected its Azure cloud computing service was caused by a Leap Year bug.
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If my math is correct, that means that Snipes served 845 days (remember 2012 was a leap year) of his three year sentence.
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Meanwhile, more than 423, 000 people travelled through Glasgow Airport in February, representing year-on-year growth of 2.1% after adjusting for 2012 being a leap year.
McDonald's reported lighter sales and slightly lower operating income from a year ago, citing tougher comparisons in part driven by an extra day in 2012 due to a leap year.
Companies' monthly financial reports may run fine for years, then crash in February of a leap year when software tries to compare Feb. 29, 2012, to a nonexistent Feb. 29, 2011.
This improvement was despite there being one less trading day in the period compared with last year, which was a leap year, and Easter falling outside the quarter this year, the company said.
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This tradition made it to the big screen via a movie called Leap Year starring Amy Adams (as a young woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on February 29) and Matthew Goode.
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Apple, for example, reached No. 47 this year, a big leap from 75 last year.
One code-writer's trick, for instance, was to encode dates using the 1, 461 days that make up a full leap-year cycle.
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Ubisoft's long-running Ghost Recon series is also making a leap forward in time this year.
Within a year 175 competitors would leap into the game, but Cotsakos got the early jump.
According to Small Business Association figures, about six million Americans a year make the bold leap onto the startup path, with many more worldwide, and many have no corporate safety net to fall back on.
Embarking on a six-month or year-long adventure often can mean taking a leap of faith and leaving key responsibilities behind, like arranging for an extended leave of absence or resigning from a job.
The Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising giant saw a 36.7% leap from last year.
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Early the following year, Szilagyi took a leap and along with Miller founded Catalyst.
Data traffic on the Internet continues to grow tenfold every year and takes a thousandfold leap every three years.
The 23-year-old honey from Holland made a long-legged leap up the charts from her second-to-last position last year.
While final root cause analysis is in progress, this issue appears to be due to a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year.
The big story this quarter is mobile ads, which the company said accounted for 23% of its ad revenue, a huge leap from the third quarter of last year when it was just 14%.
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Even so, the information given in this year's annual report represents a leap forward in openness for the company and for Chinese industry as a whole.
When Tulsa's Bill Blankenship decided to make the leap from high school, it took him a year to find a college gig.
As many as 10, 000 people have since flocked to Leap Year celebrations in Anthony, which has a leaping frog as its town symbol.
The town calls itself the "Leap Year Capital of the World" and expects 100 or more people with Feb. 29 birthdays to attend its quadrennial Leap Year Day celebration, says Jerry Brown, a pastor and store manager there.
While Morris (66.7%) is quickly approaching the required 75% for election with two years of eligibility remaining, Bagwell has made a quantum leap to 56% of the vote after only his second year on the ballot.
In 1996, computers at a New Zealand aluminum-smelting plant failed to process the 366th day in leap year.
Yet with only a year's reserve left, the seminary grad remains undaunted in his leap of faith.
Nationwide today about 1.3 million kids, or 28% of all four-year-olds, attend state-funded pre-K, a leap from 14% in 2002.
Bradford says fewer than 10% of hiring relies on one-way video interviewing at this point, but HireVue has seen its revenues leap by 500% this year, and is getting set to announce a Series C round of funding shortly.
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