[LEAPSECS] New Years financial trouble

[Steve Allen]

Some financial transaction processor (who remains nameless) had their
servers go into livelock at the beginning of the year.

http://status.simple.com/2013/01/07/nye-postmortem/

Blame for the bogus leap flag is thrown at the NTP server run by Apple.

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