I agree with you quite a bit here, although I'm of the persuasion that this one minute a century drift is nothing, you already deal with orders of magnitude wor

I agree with you quite a bit here, although I'm of the persuasion that this one minute a century drift is nothing, you already deal with orders of magnitude worse when you go visit family in another time zone for example, and you're fine. I think this goes along the lines of the great DST debate, the US is going to do away with the changes next year and make DST permanent. Not do away with it, keep it, forever. Fundamentally we create these abstractions and begin to rely on them and then decouple how we operate from the real world. We created the clocks to measure the position of the sun in the sky, now we ignore the sun entirely, the clocks are god now. I don't think it's a good thing generally speaking, but on this particular issue, I don't think people are going to really feel anything different happening, it will decrease the engineering burden to constantly maintain and update systems, which means decreased resource consumption, with no noticeable impact on the day to day lives of anyone except those engineers relying on exact time measurement.