alt Hacker NewsI don't think we can predict ahead of time whether we'll need a leap second or not
If the question is "why bother syncing time to Earth's orbit around the sun at all", I don't have a good answer for that except at this point, it's tradition.
I don't think we can predict ahead of time whether we'll need a leap second or not
If the question is "why bother syncing time to Earth's orbit around the sun at all", I don't have a good answer for that except at this point, it's tradition.
We can set some rasterization floor, such as like 3 minutes or something, and live with that.
Correcting for a 3-minute offset every few millenia seems easier than trying to understand all this minutia about wobble and aquifer management and whatever else goes into a leap second.