"But Britain, along with Canada and China, would like to keep the current keeping system, arguing that, in the 40 years that leap seconds have been gracefully i

"But Britain, along with Canada and China, would like to keep the current keeping system, arguing that, in the 40 years that leap seconds have been gracefully inserted in our midst — most recently in 2008 — there have been no problems to speak of, and the worriers have greatly exaggerated the potential for havoc. Remember Y2K?" No problems? He must not be aware of the 2008 adjtimex() bug in the linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/2/389 https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/2/389 This bug brought down nearly 100k systems for my employer at midnight UTC, worldwide, in unison. It was not a fun evening.