Tuesday, August 24, 2010

'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 24, @02:01AM
from the time-and-time-again dept.
angry tapir writes"Sparking a fresh round of debate over an ongoing issue in time-keeping circles, the International Telecommunications Union is considering eliminating leap seconds from the time scale used by most computer systems, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Since their introduction in 1971, leap seconds have proved problematic for at least a few software programs. The leap second added on to the end of 2008, for instance, caused Oracle cluster software to reboot unexpectedly in some cases."

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