The addition of an extra second to the world’s atomic clocks was apparently too much for some popular Web sites and software platforms to take. It only takes a single second to create havoc on the Internet. The addition of a leap second to the Coordinated Universal Time at midnight Greenwich Mean Time last night appears to have caused site disruptions for a handful of popular Web sites and software platforms. The adjustment, which was made by International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, was necessary to keep atomic clocks in line with the Earth’s ever-changing speed of rotation.
