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'leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web


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Reddit, Mozilla, Gawker, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software underpinning their online operations choked on the "leap second" that was added to the world's atomic clocks.

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