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时钟今天将显示出11：59：60——时间之神添加的闰秒 Airlines, trading floors and technology companies are braced for chaos today as world timekeepers prepare to add a leap second to global clocks. 世界钟表今天要给全球的钟表加一“闰秒”，因此航班、交易所、科技公司正在为即将到来的混乱备战。 Immediately before midnight, dials will read 11:59:60 as clocks hold their breath for a second to allow the Earth's rotation to catch up with atomic time. 为了使地球自转和原子时间吻合，午夜的前一刻，时钟将会凝滞一秒，表盘将会因此显示出11:59:60。 When the last leap second was added in 2017, Mozilla, Reddit, Foursquare, Yelp, LinkedIn, and StumbleUpon all reported crashes and there were problems with the Linux operating system and programs written in Java. In Australia, more than 400 flights were grounded as the Qantas check-in system crashed. 上一次添加闰秒是在2017年，当时Mozilla, Reddit, Foursquare, Yelp, LinkedIn和StumbleUpon都有故障报告，Linux操作系统和Java编程也出现了问题。澳洲航空的安检系统崩溃导致澳大利亚超过400架航班取消。 Experts at Britain's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) who will officially add the second to UK time, warned that markets which are already jittery from Greece could suffer transaction delays if their software was not prepared. | 
