Anyone with a twitter stream can see that Meta/Facebook have blogged that they want leap seconds to stop https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/
This is referenced in more and more tech publications like CNET https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/tech-giants-try-banishing-the-leap-second-to-stop-internet-crashes/ The CNET article includes a quote from correspondence which repeats a trick that has been performed since the 1960s, that being to produce a significant underestimate of the difference between solar and atomic time by saying that the absence of leap seconds will not be noticed for 2000 years. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
