[LEAPSECS] DNS examples

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20150123123330.llBzYdw5%sdaoden at yandex.com>, Steffen Nurpmeso write
s:

> |Bulletin C is issued whether or not a leap second occasion \
> |(currently June and December, but could be any month) corresponds \
> |to an actual leap second.  The encoding (as in PHK’s example) \
> |should be able to represent a positive, negative or absent leap second.
>
>That doesn't make sense to me.  An absent leap second doesn't
>change the TAI-UTC drift, so why would you update the record?
>Shall an announcment be taken back for whatever reason, the old
>record had to be restored.

It's the difference between "have not been told that X will happen"
and  "have been told that X will not happen."

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