[LEAPSECS] leap hour glitch

[Steve Allen]

London Ambulance Service lost emergency calls because of the
change from BST to GMT/UTC.  Nobody died.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2012/feb/17/999-calls-london-ambulance-service

The system software is by Northrup Grumman.

I would like to see reporting of similar stories about leap seconds.

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