While I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for designing, testing, implementing and converting to using said system, it does seem like the easiest way to h

While I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for designing, testing, implementing and converting to using said system, it does seem like the easiest way to handle the problem for the majority of cases in this day and age, where measuring 1/86,400th of a second is trivial. If only we were deciding how to implement leap seconds for the first time right now...