I took leap seconds for granted, then I read about Google "smearing" leap seconds. And then (on HN) I read about someone else working on a standard for smearing

I took leap seconds for granted, then I read about Google "smearing" leap seconds. And then (on HN) I read about someone else working on a standard for smearing them differently than Google does, just because. ...aaaand there's an xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2266/ https://xkcd.com/2266/