That's my recollection also with some countries more adamant about it than others. From memory, the decision was contentious and was postponed to later (2016?) The leap second acts like a leap year in correcting the drifts in our time measurements. On 11/09/2013 10:29 PM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
David Patte ??? said:
I believe in the astronomy world there is a motion in front of the IAU to drop leap seconds altogether and let UTC drift apart from UT1 Actually, it's the astronomers who want to keep leap seconds; just about everyone else wants rid of them.
But please can we reserve this debate to the leap seconds mailing list; I really don't want to read it twice.
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