AAS wants astronomers' opinions on abolishing leap seconds by Sept. 15

The American Astronomical Society has established a Leap Second Committee that is soliciting comments from professional and amateur astronomers on the draft ITU-R recommendation to abolish leap seconds. As I understand it, the latest proposal is to replace leap seconds with leap hours, which would occur every few hundred years at first. Comments are due by September 15. For details please see <http://www.aas.org/policy/LeapSecondCommittee.html>. For more about the issue in general, please see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Proposal_to_redefine_UTC_and_abolis...>, <http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html>, and <http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/nc1985wp7a.html>.