Another solution would be to add an extra positive and negative leap second ever...

throw0101a · on July 25, 2022

The FreeBSD folks run tests on positive and negative leap seconds to make sure things are fine:

Of course there's a whole lot of other userland code besides ntpd.

ble · on July 25, 2022

It could be a holiday / hazing event for software engineers.

ncmncm · on July 25, 2022

I.e., half of everything is broken each 6 months, instead of just every 15 - 30 months.

Better would be half of everything not breaking every 15 - 30 months.