Richard Ibbotson wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2009 09:53:22 Steve wrote:I put it in my coat this morning (unaware of the problems till I read my email) and it is working fine.You would expect the BBC to check their facts before publishing something wouldn't you ? Shows you how inaccurate they can be sometimes.
I think it was only later that people worked out it would die if you turned it on on one specific day - I'm not sure which day it was, but basically if the "number of days" counter ever hit 366 exactly (as in, a leap year) it went nuts. More than or less than that number and you are/were fine I believe.
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