Falsehoods programmers believe about leap seconds: 1. The rate at which leap seconds are inserted will remain roughly constant. [...] The Earth's rotation is s

Falsehoods programmers believe about leap seconds: 1. The rate at which leap seconds are inserted will remain roughly constant. [...] The Earth's rotation is slowing down (by about 2 ms per day per century), so the difference between TAI and UT1 is increasing quadratically, not linearly.