1 second too many?

July 3rd, 2012 by Stephen Jones Leave a reply »

After all the hype over Y2K which did not result in chaos, over the weekend, a leap second was injected to realign  clocks with the slowing rotational speed of the Earth. Unfortunately, for many Linux and Java users, this leap second caused systems to hang and thrash.Rebooting the affected machines fixed the problem, as did stopping “ntpd” and manually setting the date. However major sites were hot like sites such as Reddit, FourSquare, Yelp, Qantas and LinkedIn.

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