A GPSD time warp

Posted Aug 6, 2021 17:48 UTC (Fri) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: A GPSD time warp by tialaramex
Parent article: A GPSD time warp

That would be the "boil the ocean" approach.

Yes, getting rid of leap seconds would solve the problem at a stroke, but Wikipedia reckons that the politicians have been bickering over it since 2005 with little apparent progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#International_p...

Any country in the world could unilaterally start following TAI instead of UTC, of course. Civil time is ultimately "just a law" that each national legislature passes independently. It simply happens to be the case that everyone currently uses UTC. But the disruption of having some time zones following TAI and some following UTC would make this problem quadratically more complicated, rather than simplifying anything.