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Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Fri, 09 November 2018 20:49 UTC

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imp@bsdimp.com said:
> There's at least 5 other formats this data exists in on the internet, but ntp
> doesn't use them, nor do people grab that data and convert to the ntp
> leap-second.txt format unless they happen to need it for other purposes and
> get a 'twofer' by doing so. 

Are any of them well supported/distributed?

Would it clean things up if we switched ntpd to use one of them?

That could be done by writing a program to translate one of the other formats to what ntpd currently reads, or teaching ntpd to use a new format.


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