> On 30 May 2015, at 06:52, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The opererative detail is this:
> 
>    "Microsoft has determined that clocks on tens of thousands
>    of servers globally running Azure should switch to the leap
>    second at midnight in the time zone where they are based."
> 
> As far as I know, it is not like Microsoft has any choice, "local
> midnight" is the only time their software makes it possible for
> them to make sure that all servers jump at the same time.

But they have servers in multiple locations, so if they are running on the 
local time zone they will not leap at the same time...

Tony.
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