23:59:59 UT: How the 'leap second' brought down half the Internets last night

Sometimes you better go to bed early.

BuzzFeed :: The “leap second” was a one second adjustment made to the atomic clock tonight at 23:59:59 UT (just before 8pm ET). After it went into effect tonight, half the internet — including Reddit, FourSquare, Yelp, LinkedIn, Gawker, StumbleUpon, and more — came crashing down. The outages were mostly (thankfully) brief. Here's how it happened.

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