Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list

[Danny Mayer <[e-mail]>]

I have been following this discussion and I'd like to push the reset
button. Discussion about the tz database is not just off-topic but is
irrelevant to this working group. Many people on this list may be
interested but there are other forums for that.

My understanding is that IERS is the body responsible for deciding when
to declare a leap-second. From the point that they announce a
leap-second there are various methods used to distribute that
announcement. From my understanding of this from then on there is an
informal process to add the information into leap-second files and those
distributed to various different places around the internet. The first
part is a manual process and requires a human being to do that. The
distribution of the information seems to be a vague process. The various
standards agencies such as NIST in the US are government agencies and as
such are only responsible for standards and information in their own
countries though you would expect that they are responsible more making
available a leap-second file.

So the real question is whether or not we need to formalize the
distribution of the leap-second file and how would we accomplish that?
Also how would it be kept uptodate? For that matter is there an
agreed-upon standard format for the contents of the leap-second file?

Danny