we were ought to insert a negative leap second, but cowards got too afraid it would break code
No, the current rules are being relaxed because with the current ones, a negative leap second _might_ happen in the near future.
It did not happen yet. No negative leap second that should have been inserted was skipped.
See this chart here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUT1#/media/File:Leapsecond.ut...
You can see the the positive leap seconds as jumps upward once the graph reaches around -0.5 s.
We were never close to reaching +0.5 seconds with a positive trend and we are still relatively far away from that.
No, the current rules are being relaxed because with the current ones, a negative leap second _might_ happen in the near future.
It did not happen yet. No negative leap second that should have been inserted was skipped.
See this chart here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUT1#/media/File:Leapsecond.ut...
You can see the the positive leap seconds as jumps upward once the graph reaches around -0.5 s.
We were never close to reaching +0.5 seconds with a positive trend and we are still relatively far away from that.