> This article details some of the problems: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html That article is ri

> This article details some of the problems: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html That article is ridiculous. * "Most telescope pointing systems fail" (by 2027) (with 5s deviation from earth rotation). Pointing systems cannot blindly rely on UTC anyway, since (a) even with leap seconds UTC is up to 1 second off earth's rotation, and (b) pointing a telescope depends on where the telescope is on earth, so some offset must be added to UTC by some human. * Hypothesized legal issues... give me a break. It would be much less trouble for humanity to deal with this once every 100 years or so.