[LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Sat Jan 17 17:20:22 EST 2015


On Sat 2015-01-17T14:55:09 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
> However the data are encoded, stored or retrieved, there will be a
> concept of operation that supports a variety of timekeeping / calendar
> use cases.  These surely include historical / retroactive
> requirements.  Any implementation should support the entire table of
> leap seconds.

I am pleased to see the DNS mechanism details being worked out.

In addition, version 05 of the tzdist draft was published today.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tzdist-service-05
It includes explicit text defining the transfer of the entire table of
leap seconds.

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