Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

It's all made up, really, isn't it? Sure, the day and year lengths do have direct meaningful correlations to astronomical phenomena, so they should be kept more or less synced. But the moment where we decide a day begins is arbitrary: in many cultures it used to be dawn, but nowadays we use midnight, which itself is an even more arbitrary time. So, what's a few seconds going to matter to anyone?

I agree that we should keep our calendar and clocks synced to the machinations of the solar system. My argument is simply that the little details are completely unnoticeable, especially since we have already divorced our clocks from being precisely tied to the sun at all (how often is dawn at 6:00 am?). So who are these fiddly leap seconds really benefiting? I would argue that it would be a lot less hassle to simply save up these tiny aberrations until they sum to a larger, yet still not terribly noticeable, discrepancy, like a full minute or even an entire hour. Adjustments of that size would be extremely rare, and in the hour case would probably not even touch most people within their lifetimes. I just think that our technology has gotten so precise at this point that it feels like we're making these leap second adjustments more or less just because we can. But who does it even help?

Like I said, the majority of us already deal with our clocks being off by whole hours for much of the year, and even for those of us not practicing DST, time zones inherently place many of us up to a full hour or more out of sync with the sun year-round. A great many people are used to their clocks being around an hour off, all the time. So why not just do the occasional, super rare leap hour instead of all these silly leap second shifts?

But yes, you're right, this is r/crazyideas. Perhaps my idea here isn't crazy enough.