> Synchronizing the time between machines isn't hard Well, maybe "hard" can be relative to scope and scale. It took google engineers some trial and error befo

> Synchronizing the time between machines isn't hard Well, maybe "hard" can be relative to scope and scale. It took google engineers some trial and error before settling on the concept of "smearing a leap second" across the entire day. Relying on plain vanilla NTP sync and GPS satellites was not enough. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-l...