Eventually, you get to the point that the paradigm involved in this won't work. You've got to do something different. The addition of leap seconds is going to be an increasing nuisance for people who are counting on a time scale where a minute actually contains 60 seconds.
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There is a philosophical feeling that abolishing the leap second results in greater decoupling of the time scale from rotation of the Earth, and that this is not a good thing. But we put up with daylight-savings time in the United States, and China has one time zone for the entire country. My own feeling is that we all live with departures.Dennis McCarthy
If I were a communications company and wanted to make sure I never got bothered with a leap second, I'd create my own sort of internal time scale. Then there's a concern that if everyone started doing this, there'd be a complete lack of standardization.
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