Tonight’s leap second may cause problems for the Internet

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jun 30, 2015 9:40 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Sebastian Anthony
Mail this story
Print this story

Tonight, at 23:59:59 on June 30, a leap second will be added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Instead of the clock rolling around to 00:00:00 on July 1 as per usual, the time will actually jump to 23:59:60 before finally ending up in July a second later. The previous leap second, which was inserted in June 2012, caused a number of high-profile technological issues, and it's likely that the leap tonight will cause some problems as well.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Standards

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.