[wlug] So How Did Your Leap-Second Go?

At noon today NZ time, an extra second was inserted into UTC, the time kept by the world’s atomic clocks. The time that was one second before midnight UTC (one second before noon NZST) became two seconds before intead: after 23:59:59 UTC came 23:59:60 UTC, before ticking over to 0:00:00 UTC. The previous time this happened, three years ago, several Linux-based systems malfunctioned. No word yet on how this one went... <http://lwn.net/Articles/648313/>