Astronomy commonly uses TAI or raw GPS time. In fact if you look at video footage from NASA control rooms and such there's usually a GPS second clock up on the wall somewhere.
The motivation for leap seconds wasn't astronomers, but to just keep civil time tied to solar time long term. However, the unpredictability of these leap second additions has proven to be pretty annoying, causing bugs and such. This is why google and others actually "smear" the introduction of their leap seconds over half the day.
Considering the current difference is 37 seconds, its natural to wonder if this is worth it. Certainly most people wouldn't notice relative to dawn dusk for a very long time, long enough that the entire concept probably wouldn't even make sense anymore. So why not just stop? That's the basic argument here.
Astronomy commonly uses TAI or raw GPS time. In fact if you look at video footage from NASA control rooms and such there's usually a GPS second clock up on the wall somewhere.
The motivation for leap seconds wasn't astronomers, but to just keep civil time tied to solar time long term. However, the unpredictability of these leap second additions has proven to be pretty annoying, causing bugs and such. This is why google and others actually "smear" the introduction of their leap seconds over half the day.
Considering the current difference is 37 seconds, its natural to wonder if this is worth it. Certainly most people wouldn't notice relative to dawn dusk for a very long time, long enough that the entire concept probably wouldn't even make sense anymore. So why not just stop? That's the basic argument here.