Excellent postmortem. They blame their code and Golang, but another problem is that their kernel ran time backwards to implement the leap second. That's really

Excellent postmortem. They blame their code and Golang, but another problem is that their kernel ran time backwards to implement the leap second. That's really not the right way to do leap seconds, but is a common kludge because POSIX defines days as always having exactly 86,400 seconds. Details on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Encoding_time_as_a_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Encoding_time_as_a_n...