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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The outage affected suppliers, including Allied Petroleum, BP, Gull, Waitomo, and Z Energy, and has reportedly been fixed.
The gas pump breakdown sent stakeholders into a frenzy as they tried to resolve the problem caused by software being unequipped to process the bonus day.
John Scott, the CEO of Invenco Group, the provider of the self-payment terminals that malfunctioned, confirmed to Reuters that a "leap year glitch" caused the problem.
Worldline claimed that all non-Invenco terminals using its technology continued to work during the outage, per Otago Daily Times.
While some gas stations were still able to accept other forms of payments, those that relied on the broken terminals found themselves missing out on business.
As the companies involved work to issue apologies—and, in some cases, discounts—to make up for the inconvenience, there's hope that the scale and embarrassment associated with the outage will help prevent similar events.
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