That’s good news for tech giants that are worried about the adjustments' technical risks.
The new policy is designed to last at least a century.
Ticking digital clocks are a foundation for everything we do online.
It isn’t an idle worry.
In 2017, aleap second glitch at online grid infrastructure company Cloudflareknocked a fraction of customers' servers offline.
Phasing out the leap second as late as 2035 leaves 13 years of possible tech trouble.
But adopting the new policy has some complications, includingRussian pressure for a delay.
Russia’ssatellite navigationsystem unlike those operated by the United States, Europe and China factors in leap seconds.
That would mean a leap second would have to be removed, and that’s never been tried.
It recommended forming a policy for adjusting clocks at some as yet unspecified time gap.
