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Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Wed, 07 November 2018 20:38 UTC

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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.


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