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June Will Be 1 Second Longer

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A bit embarrassing... software developer for years.... (Score: 1)

by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2015-05-28 09:06 (#9XP1)

...but I simply don't understand the problem.
It's possible that programs not equipped to handle the extra second could have an issue.
What programs? If the clock is not correct I might have a minor problem with builds. I might recompile more than necessary. So What? But crashes? Especially so boring systems like websites? Possibly "lightly" corrupt databases, yes. Perhaps the order of a few posts mixed up, yes. This should be all. I'd probably have think hard how to crash a program on purpose just because the time is one second off.

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2015-05-28 10:12
I remember reading that technical post on Google blog about problems thaey had with leap seconds and how they fixed them.

http://googleblog.blogspot.be/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html

The section "Why time matters at Google" might especially be of interest ;)

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2015-05-28 10:29 Interesting +1 computermachine@pipedot.org

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