[J_C_Denton1]

Thousands of Zune MP3 music players froze on New Year's Eve around the world due to what Microsoft described as a bug in the device's internal clock.
The bug activated as the internal clock clicked over to "12:01am on December 31, 2008".

The updated Zune Insider post advised users that the malfunction only affected 2006 models of the 30GB media player and should self-correct once the internal clock flipped over to January 1, 2009, the batteries were run down or the device restarted.

Read the complete report here.
AFP: Leap year bug zaps Zune music players


Are you affected by this bug too???

 

[Signal2Noise]

Uhh...dude....

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f15/30...-today-396309/

Did Australia just get the internets?

 

[J_C_Denton1]

What is Internet?

(Duh, someone already posted about Zune problem...)

 

[krmathis]

Guess you missed the thread right below this one...

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f15/30...09/index5.html

 

[Earwax]

Quote:

Originally Posted by J_C_Denton1 /img/forum/go_quote.gif What is Internet? (Duh, someone already posted about Zune problem...)

Yeah, but your thread has a funnier title.

 

[Devolve]

Y2K9!

 

[Earwax]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Devolve /img/forum/go_quote.gif Y2K9!

Actually, the Day366 bug.

 

[kmhaynes]

Yeah, I'm a computer program and I just can't fathom how Microsoft (or who ever did the firmware for the Zune 30) that their firmware did not know that a 366th day would happen -- that's what a leap year is!!

Anyway, my Zune, like all others is back in action on Jan 1, 2009 -- it was scary, but hilarious now, looking back on it and the egg on MS's face!

 

[psyllium]

Quote:

Originally Posted by kmhaynes /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yeah, I'm a computer program

Aha! I always suspected it!

 

[Alpha 1 Omega]

lol to the thread title

 

[necropimp]

this thread may have already happened but this one has the best title

 

[AgainstTheGrain]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Devolve /img/forum/go_quote.gif Y2K9!

lmao. the Y2K bug needed 9 years to finally catch someone slipping and it so happened to be Microsoft.

I wonder if this little blunder will be in the next PC vs. Mac add? that would be pretty funny.

 

[GungaDin]

The Zunes awoke when users shouted at them "klaatu barada nikto!"

 

[Wiggy Fuzz]

Welcome To The Twilight Zune...

 

[Signal2Noise]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiggy Fuzz /img/forum/go_quote.gif Welcome To The Twilight Zune...

^^Now that's funny!^^