It wasn't Qantas - the leap second problem was with Amadeus, which since they provide reservation services to many airlines, is probably worse.
Amadeus says it handles more than 3 million airline bookings a day through > its huge data center in Erding, > German<http://blog.travolution.co.uk/2010/09/inside-the-amadeus-nerve-centr.php>y, > where more than 5,000 servers process 1 billion transactions a day across > its many travel businesses (see video > overview<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQP6HKymuU> > and > infographic<http://new.amadeusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/amadeus_data_centre_infographic_brandedv2.jpg> > for > more). In a media statement, Amadeus said it is investigating the cause of > the systems crash and will “take any appropriate steps to avoid this > reoccurring.” The outage was the second this year for Amadeus’ reservations > systems, following an incident in > January<http://www.tnooz.com/2012/01/30/news/amadeus-technology-outage-hits-major-airline-systems-and-agency-bookings/> > . On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Ed Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> wrote: > The issue is being widely attributed to the "leap second", the one-second > time adjustment for atomic clocks so they can synchronize with clocks based > on the Earth's rotation. > > > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2012/07/02/qantas_network_**down/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/qantas_network_down/> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
