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The way Google implemented leap seconds wasn't by sticking a 23:59:60 second at the end of 31st Dec. The way they did it was more interesting. What they did in
by yen223 1y ago
The way Google implemented leap seconds wasn't by sticking a 23:59:60 second at the end of 31st Dec. The way they did it was more interesting.
What they did instead was to "smear" it across the day, by adding 1 / 86400 seconds to every second on 31st Dec. 1/86400 seconds is well within the margin of error for NTP, so computers could carry on doing what they do without throwing errors.
Edit: They smeared it from noon before the leap second, to the noon after, i.e 31st Dec 12pm - 1st Jan 12pm.
- bigiain 1y agoRachelByTheBay wrote about doing that here: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/01/09/lag/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/01/09/lag/ That was probably at Move Fast And Break Things Corp, instead of We Used To Be Do No Evil Inc.