Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> > > General press loses its *mind*:

No more than usual.  They're just rewriting this Facebook blog post:

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/

It appears that Forrest Christian (List Account) <lists () packetflux com> said:
> Personally I'd like to see the UTC timescale be fixed to the TAI timescale
> with a fixed offset determined by whatever the offset is when they make the
> change.

That's what Facebook, Google, and AWS want, too.  Who knows, for once they might be right.