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Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Wed, 07 November 2018 20:55 UTC

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From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
To: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 12:38:20PM -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> denis.reilly@orolia.com said:
> > However, after the discussion during the WG meeting, I think it's better to
> > remove the mention of the leap second file hosted by the IETF in the BCP. As
> > Martin notes, there are better places to get it. 
> 
> "Better" is an interesting word.  Better for who?
> 
> I think the key idea is that distros should include the leap-seconds file as 
> part of their redistribution of the time zone data so that individual systems 
> don't need to run a cron job to fetch it from someplace.

At least in Debian it's part of tzdata that provides time zone
information. The location is /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list

The source of that is downloaded from iana:
https://www.iana.org/time-zones
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz


Kurt

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