The way it is is really how we all want it. 86400 seconds = 1 day. And we operate under the assumption that midnight UTC is always a multiple of 86400.
We don’t want every piece of software to start hardcoding leap second introductions and handling smears and requiring a way to update it within a month when a new leap second is introduced.
You never worried or thought about it before, and you don’t need to! It’s done in the right way.
We don’t want every piece of software to start hardcoding leap second introductions and handling smears and requiring a way to update it within a month when a new leap second is introduced.
You never worried or thought about it before, and you don’t need to! It’s done in the right way.