[LEAPSECS] Bulletin C and all that

[Tony Finch]

Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:
>
> The issue is policy versus implementation.  The standard allows the end
> of every month, so any implementation (whether DNS or otherwise) should
> do likewise.  The IERS June / December policy is appropriate for the
> current epoch - i.e., oversamples the UTC "waveform" - so only some of
> the months permitted by this encoding will correspond to leaps.

Exactly. (I should have said that in my original message.)

Tony.
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