Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Jul 2 06:18:03 CDT 2012
As related to me by a senior systems developer, many popular Java sites crash due to a Leap second bug which happened last night as the atomic clocks, world wide jumped a second. Sites using Hadoop and the Apache Cassandra databases were also affected. But many of the larger sites like Google had already anticipated the error and had already morphed that extra second. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57464559-93/leap-second-bug-causes-site-sof tware-crashes/ Sites like Mozilla went down and Reddit was still down when last looked. Sites also affected were StumbleUpon, Yelp, FourSquare, and LinkedIn and so on. It appears that this error was well known but many systems did not take the bug seriously. I guess Oracle had better get to work. Jim