[LEAPSECS] pick your own length of second

[Zefram]

Warner Losh wrote:

>I'd be happy with the rule that starting June 2012 we do one every 18

>months for the next 50 years.  Then we come up with a new rule

...

>It would finally make UTC a non-observational calendar.


No, that would still be observational, but only on a longer timescale.
It would mean that devices with a sufficiently short lifespan could get
away with treating it as an arithmetical calendar.

-zefram