Mikael Abrahamsson writes: > This is similar to the jiffycounter wrapping, since this doesn't happen > that often, it's not commonly tested for. Good way is to start the jiffy > counter so it wraps after 10 minutes of uptime. That way you'll run into > any bugs quickly. Either we should abolish the leap second or we should > make leap second adjustments (back and forth) on a monthly basis to > exercise the code. > > This is a hard sell though...
and it's perversely interesting. It would even be tolerable when the difference between UTC and UT1 is such that the insertions and deletions maintain the +/- .9 s difference. There would even be enough time to warn folks about this. H
