Article CY8Y Leap second: all the latest developments and reaction – live!

Leap second: all the latest developments and reaction – live!

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Michael Safi
from on (#CY8Y)

You just had one of the longest hours of your life. At midnight GMT, clocks added an extra second to allow atomic clocks to stay in sync with the Earth's rotation. Will the internet fall apart? Follow all the latest developments on our live blog

10.41am AEST

Was it as good for you as it was for us? The longest day of the year is flying by here at the Guardian's Sydney HQ. Here's how the leap second went down, in real time:

10.31am AEST

The chaos we all feared is upon us:

Twitter is having problem estimating how long ago tweets were sent. Seeing tweets from a minute ago say they were sent a day ago #leapsecond

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