On the contrary, I think that the smearing behavior is an indication that leap seconds poison an otherwise-useful model of reality. The discontinuity is an ann

On the contrary, I think that the smearing behavior is an indication that leap seconds poison an otherwise-useful model of reality. The discontinuity is an annoying edge case driven by the fact that "time error" accumulates, so it seems to me that that a 1-day smear is a more natural approximation than an instantaneous discontinuity. That, and tuned for the attention span of human organizations.