Comment by layer8
4 days ago
Several hundred years at least (see my sibling comment). And in all likelihood this will be handled by shifting the time zones by an hour, or possibly by omitting one DST adjustment in spring.
In the very far future, leap seconds would become inadequate anyway, as you’d have to insert them every month, then every week, then every day, due to the deceleration of Earth’s rotation.
If DST is still around in 1000 years, please drop my brain-jar in front of a spacebus.
Leap seconds never did me any harm but DST is a constant menace, adding complexity everywhere.
You might not even realize the harm leapseconds have caused you. E.g. almost certainly have knocked your cell service out (or rather prophylactic reboots across leap seconds have)-- and that's without having experienced a negative leapsecond.
Agreed on DST too, both are cases of a small harm done at a such a massive scale that the cumulative damage is significant.