According to the Register:
A new year bug has scuppered card transactions at thousands of Australian shops for four days so far, because systems at the Bank of Queensland say it is now 2016.
The glitch has meant most debit cards have effectively expired.
In the ensuing chaos, shops served by Bank of Queensland have been forced to introduce temporary manual workarounds, Business Day reports.
This is why, programmers say we need to throughly test the software. Â This is a good example of a roll over issue (presumably). Â We have dealt with Year 2K, 2K1, and now 2K10. Â Please don’t put this off, and just fix your date issues.
For the full story, Oz bank thinks it’s 2016.