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Time, technology and leaping seconds

Leap year? Try leap smear. Learn how our site reliability engineers (SREs) devised a clever way for our services and data centers to handle “leap seconds” - occasional additions of one second that bring all clocks in line with solar time.

Read more about site reliability engineering on the official Google blog.