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Time, technology and leaping seconds

Very large-scale distributed systems, like ours, demand that time be well-synchronized and expect that time always moves forwards. Computers traditionally accommodate leap seconds by setting their clock backwards by one second at the very end of the day. But this “repeated” second can be a problem.
# 2012/07/02 Read More Source: googleblog.blogspot.com

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