PHK's argument is that leap seconds don't come frequently enough to ensure that software is tested in their presence. Replacing them with a 3600-times rarer ev

PHK's argument is that leap seconds don't come frequently enough to ensure that software is tested in their presence. Replacing them with a 3600-times rarer event would make the problem much, much worse (but on the plus side, it'll be our descendents' problem, not ours ;)