Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
by Dylan16807 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @03:19AM
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Extra historical zones and comments don't add any real complexity, do they?
> If you dig into the time routines that use tzdata, you see they must use an unstable conversion process that _may_ converge, but has a simple counter protecting it in the case that it _does not_ converge and in that case it just gives you a best guess time that may still be wrong anyways.
What kind of time zone data would be required to make it fail to converge when that time actually did exist?
> If you dig into the time routines that use tzdata, you see they must use an unstable conversion process that _may_ converge, but has a simple counter protecting it in the case that it _does not_ converge and in that case it just gives you a best guess time that may still be wrong anyways.
What kind of time zone data would be required to make it fail to converge when that time actually did exist?