On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:59:37 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, will run without them until 2135.'
That should be 2035, as in elsewhere in the article. Apparently it was a compromise, as some parties wanted to defer the decision until 2040.
'The assumption is that within those 100 years, time-focused scientists (metrologists) will have found a way to synchronize time as measured by humans to time as experienced by our planet orbiting the Sun.'
What’s the answer? All I can think of is that our computers should use TAI instead of UTC (= TAI + leap-second adjustments). We already have a simple, reliable scheme for dealing with timezone offsets, daylight saving etc; why not do the same for leap-second adjustments? Another report on the same decision here <https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/22/leap_seconds_discontinued/>.