1 Jul
2015
1 Jul
'15
2:43 a.m.
On 01/07/2015 2:33 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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.
In my team at work, we look after about 200 Linux servers. Only one failed (which happened to be the server that send us error notifications), and we suspect it was due to a binary application from a vendor, rather than the server itself, or the open source applications installed on it. -- Simon Green.