[tz] isdst bug Europe/Dublin (tzdb-2019c)

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2019-12-16T14:10:21+0000 Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
> You take a Gregorian calendar (by default; in principle you could use
> Julian or something else) and use it to count *all* SI seconds, so that
> every day has exactly 86400 seconds in it. It works the same way as UT1,
> but without the unpredictable-length "seconds".

In 1968 between a pair of meetings the atomic clock and CCIR folks
ascertained that they could not use that scheme in broadcast time
signals, and that is when and why the notion of the leap second came
into being.

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