Episode 334 - Leap seconds break everything

<p dir="auto"><a href="https://twitter.com/joshbressers" rel= "nofollow">Josh</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kurtseifried" rel="nofollow">Kurt</a> talk about leap seconds. Every time there's a leap second, things break. Facebook wants to get rid of them because they break computers, but Google found a clever way to keep leap seconds without breaking anything. Corner cases are hard, security is often just one huge corner case. There are lessons we can learn here.</p> <h2 dir="auto">Show Notes</h2> <ul dir="auto"> <li><a href= "https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/" rel="nofollow">How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS</a></li> <li><a href= "https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/" rel="nofollow">Facebook wants to get rid of leap seconds</a></li> <li><a href="https://developers.google.com/time/smear" rel= "nofollow">Leap Smear</a></li> <li><a href= "https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca"> Falsehoods programmers believe about time</a></li> </ul>