#Michael Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 The launch of Android 4.2 brought a welcome smattering of extra features to the mobile world, but a recently discovered bug omits something slightly important: namely, the month of December. Dive into the People app on any device using the new OS, and the last 31 days of the year will be unavailable for contacts' anniversaries and similar special occasions. Google is aware of the flaw, although it hasn't yet said when it will have a fix in place. We've reached out to get a more definitive timetable for a solution beyond just what's implied by the Gregorian calendar. In the meantime, don't lean too heavily on that smartphone to remember an imminent birthday; people born in December are stiffed out of enough presents as it is. Story over at Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/18/android-4-2-bug-omits-december-from-the-people-app/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Johnny Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Oh boy, programmers and their issues with working with dates :p There always seems to be some time or date related bug popping up somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Uh oh... its the millennium bug all over again We're all gonna die next month anyway so..... :p Duffydemon and FMH 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 18, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted November 18, 2012 Android 4.2.1 to be released in 3... 2... 1... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Google knows that the world ends in December 2012 :p Max Norris, Duffydemon, Seahorsepip and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phouchg Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Probably forgot to copy-paste last case of the month switch statement :p http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Date-Selector-of-the-Damned.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 December is too mainstream. HoochieMamma 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Observer Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 December is soooo 2011!!!! Arceles 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noir Angel Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 A bit of a silly screwup from Google there, let's hope they fix it soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourjays Veteran Posted November 18, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 18, 2012 Oh boy, programmers and their issues with working with dates :p There always seems to be some time or date related bug popping up somewhere. Dates and times are the bane of my life as a PHP programmer. You wouldn't believe how difficult they can be. But leaving out a whole month? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted November 18, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 18, 2012 Could be worse. People could've missed alarms set to go off on New Years Day. ... actually no, this is worse. :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmrd Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Probably forgot to copy-paste last case of the month switch statement :p http://thedailywtf.c...the-Damned.aspx Holy ****ing ****. That programmer is nuts. My similar date selector is only a couple of lines of code Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo158 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Google knows that the world ends in December 2012 :p Exactly, they're just being helpful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Google knows that the world ends in December 2012 :p They'll fix it the day after. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted November 19, 2012 Member Share Posted November 19, 2012 Using Android 4.2...no December 2012 for you Finally, someone who hates December as much as I do. Bah Humbug. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Michael Posted November 19, 2012 Author Share Posted November 19, 2012 Finally, someone who hates December as much as I do. Bah Humbug. :p Actually I hate January....everyone single one of my family has their birthday in January. It might seem like it is easy to remember but growing up it sucked as everyone's birthday got lumped together into one big party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 I hate working with Dates. Especially due to countries having different formats (ie: US/Canada). US like to have their month and days switched compared to Canada. I work and live in Canada, but a lot of our customers are American. I don't know how many times I have run into a problem with code that was caused by different date formats. I ended up using some built in C# DateTime code to determine us/canada. bool american = (DateTime.Parse("01/02/2012").Month == "02"); so that I can re-arrange the date strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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