The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks

Each leap second event causes hundred of millions of dollars worth of disruption and that's not including the disruption created by leapseconds even when they're not happening (e.g. the frequent false leap seconds) or the mini-disaster we're sure to experience should there be a negative leap second (which we are still trending towards).

The delays are unfortunate because it's harder to transition applications that need UT1 to use an offset from UTC when the available time sources are still unpredictably and unreliably leaping on you (since to apply a UT1 correction you need your UT1 offset and your UTC source to agree if and how a leap second has been applied).

From a practical perspective it would be better to immediately discontinue leaping, then UTC would immediately become a stable time that adjustments could be applied against for those few applications that need them. It would also save us from a negative leap second.

Yah, one second doesn't matter, but it builds up.

This: "Or we could even decouple our sense of time from the Sun entirely, to create a single world time zone in which different countries see the Sun overhead at different times of day or night."

Shows that they are completely disconnect from human reality: "Science already doesn’t use local times, we talk in UTC."

That's great for science, but people care about day vs night.