According to news on LinkedIn the ITU voted to abolish leap seconds by 2035. I'm not about to wade into this discussion, except to make one note. Abolishing leap seconds might lead to practically noticeable effects a hundred years from now. But I guess by that time, we'll have bigger problems to deal with.

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@bert_hubert For problems on this timescale, I used to say "the United Federation of Planets will take care of that"...

I'm not _that_ optimistic anymore, but I still trust our descendants' ability to take care of themselves probably better than ours

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