[tz] If leap seconds go away, should TZif leap-second tables expire?

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Wed Nov 29 17:15:26 UTC 2023


On Tue 2023-11-28T23:31:18-0800 Paul Eggert via tz hath writ:
> Should TZif leap-second tables have no expiration date if leap seconds are
> discontinued, as draft -09 suggests?

That seems best.

Asserting a specific date like 2100 is inconsistent with the inability
to predict changes in every other aspect of time zone information.

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