It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
It's frustrating that programmers want to redefine civil time just because it is "hard". This article glosses over the real world problems that detaching from UTC will cause.<p>This article details some of the problems: <a href="https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html</a><p>(You may want to scroll down to "Implementing the plan outlined at Torino".)<p>If we end leap seconds, it doesn't take long - only until 2028 - until "midnight" is sufficiently far from "the middle of the night" that you will have to consider the legal issues caused by events that happen just before or after 0000 hours.<p>By 2055, the "minute" displayed on a clock may be incorrect, which again may cause issues with legal timestamps.<p>And by 2083, sundials are measurably wrong.<p>All because programmers wanted to save some lines of code.