On 9/13/21 12:57 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
You participated in the tz mailing list thread:
Ha! I'd forgotten all about that too. I'd also forgotten about D.J.Berstein's statement that month <https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1998-May/010169.html>:
I don't see why anyone should waste time or energy on unused ideas such as negative leap seconds or rolling leap seconds. There's ample time to add these features if they are ever necessary. Arguments about "getting the code right" are silly: the code will have to be upgraded anyway in a few thousand years
Much of my recent tzdb activity has come from auditing tzcode for leap second issues, given that a negative leap second is a real possibility in the near future. I have in my pipeline a fix for what appears to be a genuine but very unlikely bug involving negative leap seconds, which I hope to publish later today.