""In the current Leap Second Debate, there are rational arguments, focused on practical considerations, and there is a certain unspoken unease, emerging from the symbolic substrata of the issues involved," [Rev. Paul Gabor, astrophysicist and vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona] writes, seemingly on behalf of those unspeaking."

Forget the provenance-- it seems a valid point.

The tech whining sounds a bit lame.

#LeapSeconds

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/leap-seconds-could-become-leap-minutes-despite-pushback-from-russians-vatican/

Leap seconds could become leap minutes, despite pushback from Russians, Vatican

Already endangered, the leap second might have a practical successor soon.

Ars Technica