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The 2012 Leap Second: When Time Broke Java and the Cloud

Posted on Tue 15 April 2025 in Incident Retrospectives • 3 min read

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The 2012 leap second broke Reddit, Yelp, Java apps, and more. A retrospective on how fragile timekeeping bit the cloud, and what SRE teams should do today.