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by MichaelGG 4006 days ago
It'd benefit from simply dropping it. Why should all of us pay and deal with these stupid hacks, just because some astronomers can't fix their software?

Move to leap hours, and by the time it's needed, let the AIs sort it out.

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Leap hours are probably acceptable, but at the point that you're only deviating by an hour every few millenia, can't it be safely accepted that the time has a different meaning and between generations it be accepted that 8PM means night time in the summer rather than 9PM? I doubt that we will even be using the same system by then anyways.