Re: [tz] What's "right"?

On 11/13/20 7:38 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:

[Leap smearing has] been proposed formally a number of times, without committee action

Leap smearing is controversial, for reasons that echo the 1970 disputes that Steven Allen mentioned in this thread. For example, Internet RFC 8633 "Network Time Protocol Best Current Practices" section 3.7.1 states flatly that "Leap smearing MUST NOT be used for public-facing NTP servers" while acknowledging that some public-facing servers ignore this requirement - I assume this is a nod to Amazon and Google. It's a real lack of consensus.