Cool. That actually seems like a good idea, unlike the "leap seconds are just time zones, what's the problem" one. Now you're just left with the practical probl

Cool. That actually seems like a good idea, unlike the "leap seconds are just time zones, what's the problem" one. Now you're just left with the practical problem of changing the representation of timestamps. (It's not even that the Unix timestamp representation was short-sighted. Unix was invented before leap seconds.)