[LEAPSECS] Google, Amazon, now Microsoft

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <11BA4A073E104FD29BD9DB1892B7C60F at pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:

>And now for something completely different...
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/29/windows_azure_second_out_of_sync/

The opererative detail is this:

	"Microsoft has determined that clocks on tens of thousands
	of servers globally running Azure should switch to the leap
	second at midnight in the time zone where they are based."

As far as I know, it is not like Microsoft has any choice, "local
midnight" is the only time their software makes it possible for
them to make sure that all servers jump at the same time.

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