> Anyone involved with bookkeeping and synchronizing has an unnecessary bugbear to deal with.
It is unnecessary but not because of leap seconds which are the phenomenon of real life, not some abstract invention of astronomers. The unnecessary bugbear is caused by a wrong time system design. We need both the atomic time (which corresponds to number of quartz pulses elapsed since some fixed moment in the past), and the astronomy time (which represents the orientation of the Earth in space).
The decision to mix them up was wrong and is exactly what causing “the unnecessary bugbear”. Do not want the bugbear - fix the cause of the problem.
It is unnecessary but not because of leap seconds which are the phenomenon of real life, not some abstract invention of astronomers. The unnecessary bugbear is caused by a wrong time system design. We need both the atomic time (which corresponds to number of quartz pulses elapsed since some fixed moment in the past), and the astronomy time (which represents the orientation of the Earth in space).
The decision to mix them up was wrong and is exactly what causing “the unnecessary bugbear”. Do not want the bugbear - fix the cause of the problem.