Why use leap seconds at all? Our current calendar was introduced in 1582, 440 years ago [0]. We add a leap second about every 1.5 years [1]. That means in th

Why use leap seconds at all? Our current calendar was introduced in 1582, 440 years ago [0]. We add a leap second about every 1.5 years [1]. That means in the time since our calendar was invented, we've added less than 5 minutes to our time. Would anyone notice if noon arrived 5 minutes earlier over the course of 500 years? Especially since the position of the sun varies orders of magnitude more than that simply based on season? Maybe we could all just agree to add 10 minutes in 3022. If we haven't switched calendars again. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/time/leapseconds.html https://www.timeanddate.com/time/leapseconds.html