[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Rob Seaman]

  Zefram wrote:


> Rob Seaman wrote:

>

>> Coordinate leap seconds with leap days.  Introduce an integral  

>> number of leap seconds each February 29th.  Discuss.

>

> There's also a risk that the lower frequency of leaps would  

> exacerbate the psychology of leap seconds being an infrequent event.


Countered, perhaps, by the much longer familiarity civilians have with  
leap days.


> February 29 isn't the only option for the leap day.  [...]  A more  

> obvious choice is December 31: the 366th day of the year, when most  

> years only go up to 365.


It seems very unlikely that leap day will move from February.  People  
are fond of February.  Also, a leap day at the end of December would  
be December 32nd :-)

Rob