[LEAPSECS] seconde intercalaire

[Peter Vince]

The London (England) Ambulance Service also suffered a problem just after
midnight. I can't find any reports pinning the problem on the leap-second,
but it seems too much of a coincidence not to be related.

     Peter


On 5 January 2017 at 14:39, Tom Van Baak <tvb at leapsecond.com> wrote:

> An alert reader sent me this note. I have not independently confirmed it.
> /tvb
>
> ========
>
> On December 31, 2016, in Montreal Québec, the municipal police/FD radio
> communications went into a total shutdown for over 55 minutes.
>
> The $74 million digital-encrypted SERAM radio communications system
> developed
> by Airbus DS suddenly went down preventing communications between the 9-1-1
> central dispatch and patrolmen on the field.
>
> After investigation, the problem has been finally found: the system
> engineers
> forgot to take into account the "unexpected" leap second that occurred on
> Dec 31 2016 at 23:59:60 !!!!
>
> Source (in French):
> http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/01/04/exclusif--faille-
> de-securite-majeure-au-nouvel-an
>
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>
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