As reported by the media, because of the addition of leap seconds many online resources may fail to work as computer programs are not able to accept two identical consecutive seconds.
International Earth Rotation Service will add an additional second of June 30, 2015. This will happen on 23.59.59 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). After 59 minutes followed by a second 60-th second, and then come July 1st. However, it can disrupt many Internet sites, according to Haffington Post. In 2012, under similar circumstances, many large sites such as Reddit and LinkedIn, become temporarily unavailable. The problem may also affect electronic bulletin boards, ticket reservation service, and other resources.
Note the practice of adding seconds underway since 1972. During this time, was added 24 seconds in one earth day. This practice should be carried out regularly, as planet Earth slows down its rotation for 1 hour every 6 thousand. Years. These data were obtained using the method of very long baseline interferometry based on the measurement of the Earth’s rotation by monitoring the situation very distant cosmic objects.
Alexander Yakovlev
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