alt Hacker NewsYay! No more leap seconds to manage! This is going to make my life much easier.
Edit...scratch that, now I have to keep track of UT1-UTC as a separately continuously varying parameter provided by IERS instead of tzdata
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ls65536 • today at 6:43 PM
It shifts the problem elsewhere, though as you suggest it's sometimes still the same people having to deal with it! For example, anyone relying on celestial navigation who had until now been satisfied with up to 1 second of time error is going to need to start keeping track of UT1-UTC before it starts exceeding those old bounds. This will be possibly within a few years, whenever the next leap second would have been inserted/removed.
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What do you work on that requires you to care about UT1? Something astronomy-related?