[LEAPSECS] Do lawyers care (know) about leap seconds?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CACzrW9BueiVGHtZD5pTWPcWAEHqtBSR5++=2dzYxowgw7Os9Fg at mail.gmail.com>
, Stephen Colebourne writes:
>On 1 October 2014 21:19, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>> The leap offset data doesn't change very often.  Why should it be distributed
>> via NTP rather than with the time-zone database or something similar?
>
>Because NTP already has support for it, and the data received by NTP
>is then clear and complete.

And because the typical update cycle for the time-zone database is highly
erratic and nonexistent on many legacy platforms.

If leap-seconds were announced 10 years in advance it would be different.

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