[LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <54B62FD7.4000300 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>> What would be really useful would be if they provided the current
>> leapsecond count and the date of the next (if known) via DNS.
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>> DNS because it has built in caching and works almost everywhere.
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>That would be one of many ways that it should be distributed.

Absolutely.

But the reason why DNS would be nice is that it's lightweight.

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