{"id":610417,"date":"2026-09-09T06:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/610417\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:46:09","slug":"leap-second-proposal-will-keep-software-stacks-in-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/610417\/","title":{"rendered":"Leap second proposal will keep software stacks in sync"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat means an enterprise does not only have to worry about what its own servers do. It has to consider what happens when its cloud provider, operating system, identity provider, database, external APIs, and on premises systems interpret the same moment differently,\u201d Kolev said. \u201cThis is precisely the type of systemic technology risk that concerns CIOs: individually, every dependency may look manageable, but globally there are millions of interconnected systems maintained by different organizations, written in different eras, and operating under different assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/acceligence.com\/talent\/profiles\/justin-greis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Justin Greis<\/a>, CEO of consulting firm Acceligence, also said that he hoped the proposal would pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think this is one of those cases where delaying what appears to be the technically correct answer may actually be the more responsible engineering decision. At some point, you have to ask whether preserving the relationship between civil time and the Earth\u2019s rotation to within a second is worth introducing operational risk across financial systems, telecommunications networks, cloud platforms, power infrastructure, transportation systems and countless other technologies that depend on precise synchronization,\u201d Greis said. \u201cFor the overwhelming majority of enterprise technology, I don\u2019t think it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat means an enterprise does not only have to worry about what its own servers do. It has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,141],"class_list":["post-610417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}