A large part of the capital's public lighting was turned off for several hours during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. “Tonight, in the streets of Paris, no public lighting, dark night, not at all reassuring,” worries a user of X (formerly Twitter) “The operator Cielis told us that the problem was linked to a programming fault regarding February 29 in leap years,’ specifies the Paris Center town hall.

But this incident is therefore confined to each leap year. So there are 4 years left to avoid the next bug.