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The “programmers should fix their past mistakes for free” argument is amusing when you consider that the leap second concept is nothing more than an hack.

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Personally, I favour manually adjusting the Earth's orbital and rotational characteristics to match atomic time.

Or using a system of time not correlated to the rotation of the planet. (It is convenient though :( )

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