Leap-second issues, 2015 edition

The leap second is an occasional ritual wherein Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is held back for one second to account for the slowing of the Earth's rotation. The last leap second happened on June 30, 2012; the next is scheduled for June 30 of this year. Leap seconds are thus infrequent events. One might easily imagine that infrequent events involving time discontinuities would be likely to expose software problems, and, sure enough, the 2012 leap second had its share of issues. The 2015 leap second looks to be a calmer affair, but it appears that it will not be entirely problem-free.

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