[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think this is an improvement.

Well, who saw that coming? We'll lose those newspaper stories about adjusting clocks by one leap second every one or two years. What will leap second bores have to talk about? Of course if clocks ever get too far out of sync with the sun, we may want to reconsider. Maybe add a leap hour?

BTW, currently the earth is rotating faster, threatening to require a future "negative" leap second. Anyone who has ever had to deal with leap seconds professionally (me) should feel a sense of relief. The down side is that with wall clock time no longer quite so precisely tracking the earth's rotation, celestial navigation and astronomy will be affected, but not irreparably. Since the community relying on that agreement is relatively small, and better trained, they should be able to adjust.

[nickcarraway]

Can you explain why you favor this, and why you have to use it in your job?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

It takes me about a day to recover from a leap second.

[Libloather]

[TangoLimaSierra]

Finally! I’ve been waiting for this for 200ms.

[dynachrome]

Now do DST.

[LeoTDB69]

Our grandfather clock loses a minute or two every day so whats another second?

[I want the USA back]

Oh good. It has been really hard staying up until 2 am and trying to push all my clocks forward exactly one second. The analog clocks are the worst.

[Organic Panic]

AND while they are at it standardize the calendar. Dump it and create a new one using modern time standards now that the definition of “one second” has been standardized using the constant of light speed.

I can dream.

[FarCenter]

Leap seconds are a complication for computer networks.

At least this will cease before the 2038 Epochalypse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

[Pez149]

It can’t be because the Earth’s rotation is slowing down, right?
Which means the Earth’s rotation was faster and also means the Earth can’t be billions of years old...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?

[SamAdams76]

It will be chaos.

I think we will end up regretting this in the long run.

[zeugma]

Personally, I have no issue with leap seconds, forwards or backwards. Nothing I support really requires that kind of accuracy. NTP handles them fine. I've seen potential issues with logging of database transaction records and such things, but that is almost always because of sloppy programming on someone's part. The protocols for leap seconds are well known and defined, and the actual leap is something you know about well in advance. They don't just decide on some random Friday night to implement a leap second that evening.

If your programs need to be able to take them into account, then code for it. It doesn't happen very often (see below), but it's not like it should be a surprise to anyone.

Here's the list of past leap seconds. The last one happened in 2017

2272060800      10      # 1 Jan 1972
2287785600      11      # 1 Jul 1972
2303683200      12      # 1 Jan 1973
2335219200      13      # 1 Jan 1974
2366755200      14      # 1 Jan 1975
2398291200      15      # 1 Jan 1976
2429913600      16      # 1 Jan 1977
2461449600      17      # 1 Jan 1978
2492985600      18      # 1 Jan 1979
2524521600      19      # 1 Jan 1980
2571782400      20      # 1 Jul 1981
2603318400      21      # 1 Jul 1982
2634854400      22      # 1 Jul 1983
2698012800      23      # 1 Jul 1985
2776982400      24      # 1 Jan 1988
2840140800      25      # 1 Jan 1990
2871676800      26      # 1 Jan 1991
2918937600      27      # 1 Jul 1992
2950473600      28      # 1 Jul 1993
2982009600      29      # 1 Jul 1994
3029443200      30      # 1 Jan 1996
3076704000      31      # 1 Jul 1997
3124137600      32      # 1 Jan 1999
3345062400      33      # 1 Jan 2006
3439756800      34      # 1 Jan 2009
3550089600      35      # 1 Jul 2012
3644697600      36      # 1 Jul 2015
3692217600      37      # 1 Jan 2017

[V K Lee]

Never realized my clock leaped, did back-flips or sprinted.
It has done its job adequately for a number of years (including the traditional spring forward/fall backward)automatically, with no help whatsoever. Are there now those same bugs in my clock we've found on our phones, browsers and EVs? Assume WTP will be charged an extra monthly fee for this service. Any news on this? There are a few pennies remaining in my pocket but hoped to keep those just in case penny candy might be found again.

[scrabblehack]

Do the instruments actually count vibrations of Cesium atoms?

[LibWhacker]

Irresponsible idiots! The only reason they’re doing this is because they know they won’t be around in 15 million years when it’s snowing in August!