The people most concerned were (automated) equity traders. Bloomberg reports 1.4 million trades per second. And, of course, they only count (continental) USA. That's a lot of capital that can go missing. And it was a trading day, not like 2012.
Different parts of the world managed this differently ... trading houses in our part of the world apparently "smeared" the update over several hours, similar to sysplex timer adjustment. Who's taking bets that the traders beat the scientists, and leap seconds get banished ?. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
