Why Leap Seconds Cause Glitches

2015-06-30

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(EDIT: Of all the things not to fact-check! It's UTC, not UCT. Which is short for Coordinated Universal Time, because reasons. Well, that's embarrassing.)

http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - There's a leap second tonight! And while there's not the Y2K-scale of disaster being predicted for it, there are probably going to be a few problems. Here's why computers have trouble with something that should, in theory, be pretty simple.