Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Understanding the leap second that crashed the Internet

You may have noticed yesterday that io9 � and the rest of the Gawker network � went down for several minutes yesterday.

Other sites, including Reddit, 4Chan, LinkedIn, The Pirate Bay, Yelp, and Meetup, had lengthy outages, all at the hands of one tiny unit of time.

Source:
http://io9.com/5922647/understanding-the-leap-second-that-crashed-the-internet

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