[LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <54B621B5.1080909 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>> About one year ago I contacted the folks at IERS and asked them to put
>> an expiration date into their leap second file since the existing one
>> didn't have one.

What would be really useful would be if they provided the current
leapsecond count and the date of the next (if known) via DNS.

DNS because it has built in caching and works almost everywhere.

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