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[#Michael]

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....the-people-app/

[~Johnny]

Oh boy, programmers and their issues with working with dates There always seems to be some time or date related bug popping up somewhere.

[Detection]

Uh oh... its the millennium bug all over again

We're all gonna die next month anyway so.....

[+Mephistopheles]

Android 4.2.1 to be released in 3... 2... 1...

[tsupersonic]

Google knows that the world ends in December 2012

[+Phouchg]

Probably forgot to copy-paste last case of the month switch statement

http://thedailywtf.c...the-Damned.aspx

[tiagosilva29]

December is too mainstream.

[THE_OBSERVER]

December is soooo 2011!!!!

[Javik]

A bit of a silly screwup from Google there, let's hope they fix it soon.

[Fourjays]

~Johnny, on 18 November 2012 - 18:46, said:

Oh boy, programmers and their issues with working with dates 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?

[Denis W]

Could be worse. People could've missed alarms set to go off on New Years Day.

... actually no, this is worse.

[PmRd]

Phouchg, on 18 November 2012 - 18:50, said:

Probably forgot to copy-paste last case of the month switch statement

http://thedailywtf.c...the-Damned.aspx

Holy ****ing ****. That programmer is nuts. My similar date selector is only a couple of lines of code

[neo158]

tsupersonic, on 18 November 2012 - 18:49, said:

Google knows that the world ends in December 2012

Exactly, they're just being helpful!!!

[Raa]

tsupersonic, on 18 November 2012 - 18:49, said:

Google knows that the world ends in December 2012

They'll fix it the day after.

[Growled]

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Using Android 4.2...no December 2012 for you

Finally, someone who hates December as much as I do. Bah Humbug.