In 1996, computers at a New Zealand aluminum-smelting plant failed to process the 366th day in leap year.
It has in the past been reluctant to accept tougher sanctions but, after an embarrassing leap in its exports last year, may now reconsider.
McDonald's reported lighter sales and slightly lower operating income from a year ago, citing tougher comparisons in part driven by an extra day in 2012 due to a leap year.
Companies' monthly financial reports may run fine for years, then crash in February of a leap year when software tries to compare Feb. 29, 2012, to a nonexistent Feb. 29, 2011.
Workarounds tend to break down next year (or next leap year) in unpredictable ways.
Ubisoft's long-running Ghost Recon series is also making a leap forward in time this year.
As many as 10, 000 people have since flocked to Leap Year celebrations in Anthony, which has a leaping frog as its town symbol.
Even so, the information given in this year's annual report represents a leap forward in openness for the company and for Chinese industry as a whole.
Airlines have posted an average 6.3% increase in the number of February passengers during leap year because of the extra day, based on the past eight years' data from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
"In the quarter, spend growth continued to be healthy, and was relatively consistent with the past several quarters, despite the negative impact of having an extra billing day in the first quarter of 2012 because of leap year, " Dan Henry, American Express' chief financial officer, said during a conference call with analysts.
This improvement was despite there being one less trading day in the period compared with last year, which was a leap year, and Easter falling outside the quarter this year, the company said.
This comes even though Apple reported 17.6% annual revenue growth, or 27% when factoring in that last year had an extra week to account for the leap year.
Unless Congress and the White House take action, the dividend rate will leap to 43.4% next year for investors in the top federal tax bracket the same rate that would apply to most bonds.
MetroPCS says it added 249, 000 net new customers in the third quarter, doubling its year-earlier increase, and Leap Wireless says it gained 156, 000 net customers, more than tripling its year-earlier growth.
Yet with only a year's reserve left, the seminary grad remains undaunted in his leap of faith.
In May this year 26.8 million people visited the site, with Facebook leap-frogging MSN to become the UK's second most visited site.
While final root cause analysis is in progress, this issue appears to be due to a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year.
Nationwide today about 1.3 million kids, or 28% of all four-year-olds, attend state-funded pre-K, a leap from 14% in 2002.
The event has helped make 2008 a pivotal year for China--just in ways not fully foreseen, even by those who appreciated the leap of hosting a noisy world party in a society that is still closed in important ways.
Meanwhile, more than 423, 000 people travelled through Glasgow Airport in February, representing year-on-year growth of 2.1% after adjusting for 2012 being a leap year.
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