CommanderFrank
Cat Can't Scratch It
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We reported on the addition of a one second to the world’s clocks yesterday to correct for the Earth’s rotation, but since the one second was added last night at 7:59pm ET, some systems around the Internet couldn’t seem to handle the discrepancy of time. It’s Déjà vu all over again.
Many computing systems use what’s called the Network Time Protocol, or NTP, to keep themselves in sync with the world’s atomic clocks, and when an extra second is added, some just don’t know how to handle it.