A British ISP - from the BBC:
Leap second briefly catches out computer firm
Web firm Cloudflare was briefly caught out by the leap second added to the end of 2016.
A small number of the firm's servers failed to handle the added second properly making them return errors.
The problem meant that the sites of some of its customers were hard to reach in the early hours of 2017.
The second was added to compensate for a slowdown in the earth's rotation and helps to co-ordinate time-keeping among nations that use GMT.
An ISP of all people - bet there were a few red faces around the teapot the next day...
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