Leap minutes are not, realistically, going to happen. The proposed bound on DUTC is something like 100s, and that bound is not fixed. The reason for keeping a b

Leap minutes are not, realistically, going to happen. The proposed bound on DUTC is something like 100s, and that bound is not fixed. The reason for keeping a bound is to appease those who don’t want to give up on it, but in practice once leap seconds have been abolished the bound will be extended not enforced.