Josh and Kurt talk about leap seconds. Every time there's a leap second, things break. Facebook wants to get rid of them because they break computers, but Google found a clever way to keep leap seconds without breaking anything. Corner cases are hard, security is often just one huge corner case. There are lessons we can learn here.

Show Notes

• How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS
• Facebook wants to get rid of leap seconds
• Leap Smear
• Falsehoods programmers believe about time