Known as a “leap second,” which is a basic one-second adjustment applied to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to keep it up-to-date with solar time, the additional second added didn’t sit well with various web servers.
Before Saturday, the last time the clock added a second was in 2008. It’s not unusual for sites to undergo difficulties processing the extra time, but overall, the process has always been a worldwide success.
The news comes just one day after a power outage from a storm in Virginia caused Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, which powers sites such as Netflix, Pinterest and Instgram, to temporarily shut down.
