This discussion should go to LEAPSECS and leave NTPWG.
I'm copying it over there. Please remove ntpwg from further replies.
POSIX specs for zoneinfo already require enough complexity to handle the leap seconds, and the mechanisms for updating the zoneinfo files are well tested. All that's needed is to rename the time scale used in broadcasts, NTP, and POSIX time_t.
Just to be clear, the realization of UTC would then occur locally via zoneinfo mediated leap seconds. This is quite different from the notion of letting the timezones slosh around.
All of the missing bits would be much easier to solve by putting leap seconds in zoneinfo than by messing with NTP.
If we could escape from the artificial crisis generated from the relentless ITU shenanigans, we would have time to focus on characterizing the problem before suggesting solutions.
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