[LEAPSECS] Proposal regarding tz DB and leap second updates

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2013-08-12T18:44:39 +0200, Martin Burnicki hath writ:

> My proposal is to use some sort of network protocol to deploy the

> contents of the tz DB, either for a single time zone used on a

> system, or even for all time zones supported by the tz database.


See the efforts of
http://calconnect.org/tc-timezone.shtml

Be aware that they are working in a framework which does not share all
the vocabulary of the IANA tz community efforts and that their draft
does not currently transport the information found in the tz
"leapseconds" file.

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