‘Leap second’ on June 30 may cause computer system problems

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HONG KONG: This year, June 30 will be one whole second longer, and computers may get confused and wreak havoc on online servers.
A “leap second” needs to be added in 2015 to make sure the time on atomic clocks stays in sync with Earth’s rotational time, but some Internet companies are dreading the day.
Earth’s rotation has been slowing down by about two thousandths of a second every day. But atomic clocks, which are now accurate up to quadrillionths of a second, don’t change pace. While this situation isn’t an immediate problem, it would eventually cause clocks to become so out of sync with Earth’s rotation that they would read noon during the dead of night.