The addition of a leap second at midnight on June 30th caused some home high profile websites to fall over.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18672173
Remember the complaints about the costs involved in resolution, correction and testing of the Y2K bug? That particular event went smoothly because thousands of programmers and testers (including me) spent years ironing out the problems ahead of time, and all we got was "what was all the fuss about?".
Well here's an example of what can happen if people don't do their homework properly, and this over a mere second.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18672173
Remember the complaints about the costs involved in resolution, correction and testing of the Y2K bug? That particular event went smoothly because thousands of programmers and testers (including me) spent years ironing out the problems ahead of time, and all we got was "what was all the fuss about?".
Well here's an example of what can happen if people don't do their homework properly, and this over a mere second.