全球钟表今日将加“一闰秒”.docVIP

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 Earths 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 2012, 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2012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 Britains 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. 英国国家物理实验室（NPL）的专家将正式把闰秒加进英国时间，他们警告称，如果系统没有做好充分准备，被希腊危机搅得不堪一击的股市将 会遭受交易延迟。 There are consequences of tinkering with time, said Peter Whibberley, Senior Research Scientist in the Time and Frequency group at NPL, who is known to colleagues as The Time Lord. 英国国家物理实验室时间和频率组的资深科研家彼得·韦博利（Peter Whibberley）被同事们称为“时间之神”，他说：“如果不妥善处理时间 的话，后果将不堪设想。” Because leap seconds are only introduced sporadically, it is difficult to implement them in computers and mistakes can cause systems to fail temporarily. 添加闰秒的情况很少见，所以很难把它补在电脑里，稍有差错，系统就会暂时性瘫痪。 Getting leap seconds wrong can cause loss of synchronization in communication networks, financial systems and many other applications which rely on precise timing. Whenever a leap second occurs, some computer systems encounter problems due to glitches in the code written to handle them. The consequences are particularly severe in the Asia-Pacific region, where leap seconds occur during normal wo