Google adds time to prevent ‘leap second’ crash in June
BPC Staff Jan 7, 2015 | 8:38 pm
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118 wordsAll Latest News, Innovation and EntrepreneurshipGoogle is combating a feared Internet crash this year by adding small increments of time to its system clocks, Techie News reports. It’s doing so because 2015 is going to be longer: Scientists at the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) have announced a “leap second” will be added on June 30 to compensate for the Earth’s slowing rotation. Because the day will have 86,401 seconds, instead of 86,400, the internet could go a bit haywire. As Techie News explains, computers and servers “panic” when they are shown the same second twice in a row. It’s not the first time this has happened. In 2012 a second was added and sites such as LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and Reddit went down.