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Mariano comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18587)

Mariano — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:54:01 -0800

In the name of $DEITY, poor cat!

darijgrinberg comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18586)

darijgrinberg — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:51:02 -0800

Apparently a cat is fine, too.

For the advancement of science, I propose that the bug, once found, be submitted to http://thedailywtf.com .

Will Jagy comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18585)

Will Jagy — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:14:50 -0800

Asaf, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bymRNX0NJDo

did not realize the preview screen would be quite so large...

Juan Bermejo Vega comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18584)

Juan Bermejo Vega — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:04:36 -0800

It is impressing how much a little cat can distract annoyed users.

Asaf Karagila comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18583)

Asaf Karagila — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:53:20 -0800

In my experience, when the cat is trying to fix the cables of the TV it usually ends up badly.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18578)

Anton Geraschenko — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:45:25 -0800

I've written the SE team to see if the fix can be pushed to MO. If not, the problem should go away tomorrow. If you want to fix your profile page in the mean time, edit your profile page by visiting
http://mathoverflow.net/users/edit/XXXX
where XXXX is your user number. Either remove your birthday or change it to a leap day. The problem is that the back end chokes when computing the difference between today and when you were born.

Update: It seems like it's difficult for them to push changes to SE 1.0, so we'll just have to live with this until midnight local time.

Angelo comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18576)

Angelo — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:29:41 -0800

I have the same problem. I wrote to Anton about it.

The kitten is, indeed, extremely cute.

Juan Bermejo Vega comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18575)

Juan Bermejo Vega — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:16:26 -0800

Might be an actual improvement.

Emil J comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18572)

Emil J — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:06:07 -0800

The kitten is cute, though.

Juan Bermejo Vega comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18571)

Juan Bermejo Vega — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:30:34 -0800

I am experiencing a similar bug. I can not access my profile right now and see the following error message:

Oops! Something Bad Happened!

wait, I'll fix it

We apologize for any inconvenience, but an unexpected error occurred while you were browsing our site.
If you didn't do anything weird to get this error page, please consider reporting this error at our feedback forum, meta.mathoverflow.net.

Both may be related.

Yemon Choi comments on "Possible 29-02 bug?" (18570)

Yemon Choi — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:49:34 -0800

Earlier there was a bug over on MSE where people's profiles disappeared behind a 404-esque message. It transpires that was due to a leap year glitch in the code.

The same bug seems to have bitten MO, so I thought I'd flag it here.