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It's (less than) a minute a century -- why would we not simply say "no corrections except at the century mark, in the middle of the weekend closest to January 31st"? That way:

There's an exact time everyone knows the correction will happen, it's just a question of how big the correction will be.

The correction is always in the same direction -- no "one second forward, then later one second back" shenanigans.

It always happens over a weekend, so no one has to deal with real-time work-time issues.

While maybe some have to work a weekend, at least it's not near the year-end holidays.

It only happens once every 100 years.



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