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Haha that's a pretty entertaining watch (pun intended).
I still want details on how a leap day can take down a petrol station! My money is on time-based encryption but really it's anyone's guess. It just seems like things should still work even if (somehow!) the date is set wrong.
It could be even simpler.
If they couldn't put the date as 29th Feb yesterday most card payment machines wouldn't allow them to connect. Especially if it was "March 1st"
Much like the reasons for the "leap second smear" Tom mentions at the end of that video. Banks really care about continuity and knowing the order of events.
But what series of events could possibly lead to there being no February 29? As Tom mentions in the video, you don't do this stuff yourself, there's no reason to build that yourself.
My new guess is they had the year set wrong and no one noticed until now.