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Yes, I think that would make sense, but leap hours would be very rare: the first one won’t be needed for 500 years. See the first table at https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html

But, leap hours don’t need to be co-ordinated: countries can and do change their clocks to adjust the time of sunrise when they want.

And leap hours will work much longer than leap seconds: leap seconds will become too frequent in 1 or 2 thousand years, but leap hours will just be getting started. See the second table at the same link https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html




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