Leap seconds are generally trivia, but they become absolutely crucial in applications where multiple parties must be in exact agreement about chronology - the o

Leap seconds are generally trivia, but they become absolutely crucial in applications where multiple parties must be in exact agreement about chronology - the obvious example being financial transactions. A lot of markets were closed for the leap second and many banks still suspend all transactions during any change of local time to mitigate the risk of error. Even in applications where we don't particularly care, there have been a surprisingly large number of leap second-related bugs. CGPM have decided to abolish the leap second for good reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Other_reported_software_problems_associated_with_the_leap_second https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Other_reported_sof...