> Ending leap seconds would make the sun start rising later and later by the clock -- a few seconds later each decade. To compensate, the U.S. has proposed addi

> Ending leap seconds would make the sun start rising later and later by the clock -- a few seconds later each decade. To compensate, the U.S. has proposed adding in a "leap hour" every 500 to 600 years... So it's not abandoning the shifting so much as putting it off into a larger interval, the leap-hour. Today, that interval is the second. Today, we don't adjust for partial seconds; this proposal just moves the adjustment interval way out. Perhaps somewhere in the middle like leap-minutes would be better. This would thus occur every 60-90 years.