Leap seconds are an abomination. Anybody who needs astronomical time is not using UTC anyway. If necessary, we could have a leap minute in a century or two. Go

Leap seconds are an abomination. Anybody who needs astronomical time is not using UTC anyway. If necessary, we could have a leap minute in a century or two. Google's 24-hour smear makes leap seconds, bad enough already, ever so much worse. We could fix the problem just by never announcing another one.