About time

I love this decision, and the provided rationales:

in many countries there are differences of more than one hour between local apparent solar time and civil time due to the choice of time zone, and changes of an hour are regularly introduced when daylight-saving time is used,

a workshop organized by the Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency (CCTF) and IERS in March 2025, which included experts on Earth rotation, estimated that the probability of a negative leap second will increase rapidly in the near future, reaching a 30 % probability by 2035,

a negative leap second has not previously been applied, and it is considered to pose a high risk of causing anomalies and disruption to critical infrastructures that are largely unprepared, and the preparation would create, for the industries that rely on time synchronization, a need for financial investment, whose amount is estimated to be similar to their preparations for the millennium bug,

Leap seconds have been a thorn in my side for years and I am very happy to pass the buck down a few centuries. Having a fixed table for leap seconds that doesn't need to be updated for any mission's foreseeable future is a godsend.