> We don’t want every piece of software to start hardcoding leap second introductions and handling smears and requiring a way to update it within a month when a

> We don’t want every piece of software to start hardcoding leap second introductions and handling smears and requiring a way to update it within a month when a new leap second is introduced. That kind of thing is already needed for timezone handling. Any piece of software that handles human-facing time needs regular updates. I think it would make most of our lives easier if machine time was ~29 seconds off from human time. It would be a red flag for carelessly programmed applications, and make it harder to confuse system time with human-facing UK time.