The press, be it the general daily newspaper or the computer
magazines, is currently informing the public about an upcoming
leap second, which will be taken in the night from June 30 to
July 1 at 00:00:00 UTC. While we Europeans will enjoy our
well-deserved sleep then, this will be at 5 PM (17:00) local time
on June 30 for Califormia people, and during the morning of July
1 for people in China, Japan, Korea, or Australia. (Other
countries not mentioned for the sake of brevity.) This is
different from last time, when the leap second was taken in the
night from Saturday to Sunday (2012-July-1 00:00:00 UTC), so it
was a weekend everywhere on the globe.
We have got several requests from our customers about this
upcoming leap second, whether they need to take any special
precautions or whether they "are safe". Well, obviously nobody is
"safe" from the leap second in the sense that it would circumvent
them, everybody will encounter it on their …
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