Perhaps in like a century when UTC has drifted too far from terrestrial time and needs a correction, but all our computing systems have long ago lost whatever ability they once had to cope with leap seconds, perhaps there will be a simple answer.

A once-a-century global computing holiday.

Just turn off all the computers for a day. It'll be fine. It'll be great.

@sunfish an ultimate act of collective turning off and on again
@sunfish That sounds amazing! What if we did it every 50 years, or even every 10 years? It'd be nice if it happened often enough that everyone could expect to live through at least one global computing holiday.