.. _leap_20120630: 2012-06-30 Leap Second ====================== Quote of the day: "There should be no noticeable affect or inconvenience on computers or any other technology that requires precise timekeeping because they adjust for these leap seconds" AP Quoting [Daniel] Gambis [Director of the IERS]. (See for instance: `The Inquirer `_) NTP lossage ----------- This is a plot of the status of the NTP partners of gps.dix.dk. .. image:: gps.dix.dk.bad_partner.png The X-axis is in arbitrary units of approx 5 seconds. In total 10% of the clients started sending timestamps which indicated that they were not inside the +/- 128msec NTP spec. Notable Twitter messages ------------------------ .. image:: 63.png .. image:: 64.png .. image:: 65.png .. image:: 66.png .. image:: 69.png .. image:: 70.png .. image:: 71.png .. image:: 72.png The first hour on Twitter: -------------------------- .. image:: 1.png .. image:: 2.png .. image:: 3.png .. image:: 4.png .. image:: 5.png .. image:: 6.png .. image:: 7.png .. image:: 8.png .. image:: 9.png .. image:: 10.png .. image:: 11.png .. image:: 12.png .. image:: 13.png .. image:: 14.png .. image:: 15.png .. image:: 16.png .. image:: 17.png .. image:: 18.png .. image:: 19.png .. image:: 20.png .. image:: 21.png .. image:: 22.png .. image:: 23.png .. image:: 24.png .. image:: 25.png .. image:: 26.png .. image:: 27.png .. image:: 28.png .. image:: 29.png .. image:: 30.png .. image:: 31.png .. image:: 32.png .. image:: 33.png .. image:: 34.png .. image:: 35.png .. image:: 36.png .. image:: 37.png .. image:: 38.png .. image:: 39.png .. image:: 40.png .. image:: 41.png .. image:: 42.png .. image:: 43.png .. image:: 44.png .. image:: 45.png .. image:: 46.png .. image:: 47.png .. image:: 48.png .. image:: 49.png .. image:: 50.png .. image:: 51.png .. image:: 52.png .. image:: 53.png .. image:: 54.png .. image:: 55.png .. image:: 56.png .. image:: 57.png .. image:: 58.png .. image:: 59.png .. image:: 60.png .. image:: 61.png .. image:: 62.png