[nerdsniper]

I’d be okay with every day having a different # of seconds. That way we slowly adjust with no discontinuity, but the nominal start time of school/work stays the same.

While this feels would be a disaster for other reasons like: “How many seconds are in an hour?” -> “Depends, no one knows.” … that’s already the case with our existing leap seconds.

[zokier]

> that’s already the case with our existing leap seconds.

Which we are also in the process of getting rid of.

[ben_w]

News to me, but apparently so: https://www.bipm.org/en/-/resolution-cgpm-27-4

(This sounds like kicking the can down the road to me; making the maximum discrepancy a minute could take 50-100 years and then you need a leap-minute or equivalent).

[ssl-3]

No. But the Earth has sped up a bit, so they're less necessary than at some times in the past. And we're on schedule to change them to be some kind of bigger, yet-undecided adjustment (perhaps a whole minute) before the year 2035 comes to a close.

If we move to leap-minutes, the Earth will do whatever it does, and it is expected that we'll be able to run on atomic time for a period of decades or perhaps even a century before we need to make another adjustment like we've done with leap seconds in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Phase-out_and_futu...

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edit: Yeah, I see that your edit covered this adequately. No worries. :)