It's not just Facebook: apparently in 2015 most countries wanted to drop leap seconds, though some wanted to keep them: Most countries, including China, the Uni

It's not just Facebook: apparently in 2015 most countries wanted to drop leap seconds, though some wanted to keep them: Most countries, including China, the United States and many in Europe, favour scrapping the leap second and basing UTC on the continuous tick of atomic clocks. -- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18855 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18855