[LEAPSECS] fb/meta join the leap second haters

[Steve Allen]

Anyone with a twitter stream can see that Meta/Facebook have blogged
that they want leap seconds to stop
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/

This is referenced in more and more tech publications like CNET
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/tech-giants-try-banishing-the-leap-second-to-stop-internet-crashes/

The CNET article includes a quote from correspondence which
repeats a trick that has been performed since the 1960s, that
being to produce a significant underestimate of the difference
between solar and atomic time by saying that the absence of
leap seconds will not be noticed for 2000 years.

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