On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 6:12 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Obviously, removing a whole day from the year will create problems
keeping the calendar in step with the seasons. To compensate, it
will be necessary to add approximately 1.25 days worth of leap
seconds to each year. This works out to about one leap second
every 5 minutes. If a suitable algorithm is devised for distributing
these "leap minutes" as evenly as possible over the year, this
should cause minimal disruption.

Far more disruption than you think, because that would result in daylight at midnight and nighttime at noon for a good chunk of the year. Instead, I suggest permanently extending February to 29 days instead, with a 30th day in leap years. This would limit the disruption to a single month (March), and only by an offset of one day. I never understood what February did wrong to be disrespected with such a short month anyway. Instead, February would be equal in length to April most of the time, and every four years (at least within our lifetimes *cough2100cough*) it would get to gloat over being longer than April.