Leap Second Coming In June, 2012

Zoxed writes "IERS have just announced a leap second due at midnight, June 30th this year. Are your systems ready?" The last leap second added was at the end of 2008.

Mayans

[Anonymous Coward]

The *LAST* leap second occured in 2012

Short Notice

[alphatel]

I demand at least 3^10x8 seconds advance warning.

A matter of time....

[Vhaldera]

One small step for man; one leap second for computer systems?

Re:has to corrects my code

[Eraesr]

php coders. pah.

Re:Listen to WWV in North America

[SomeoneGotMyNick]

00:00UTC June 30th 2012 is a Saturday evening in North America. What better way to celebrate a Saturday night?

Decisions, decisions....

I was going to watch my grass grow instead, but your suggestion sounds more promising. It won't tie up the entire night for any other activities I may plan for that weekend.

I work in a corporate environment

[clickclickdrone]

I need a lot more warning than this! We won't even be able to have the meeting in time to decide who to invite to the pre-project inception meeting.

Re:has to corrects my code

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

That's because the perl interpreter sends each script to Larry Wall for review and correction.

Re:I won't care

[Anonymous Coward]

I found one here: Mechanical Watch NTP Client [wikipedia.org]

Re:I won't care

[dotancohen]

I have yet to find a watch that doesnt drift a couple of seconds every year anyways

SLOW DOWN!