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Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> Thu, 08 November 2018 05:28 UTC

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From: Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org>
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On Thu 2018-11-08T07:04:26+0300 tglassey@earthlink.net hath writ:
> IETF nor any other non government agency ascribed with time keeping
> should be cross posting the LSL.  It is created and is a requirement
> of NIST (and other Government) related time services.

IETF is not the authority for the recent time change in Morocco.
IETF is not the authority for the recent time change in Metlakatla.
Nor for any of the other data in IANA tzdb is IETF the authority.

All of that data is painstakingly gathered by volunteers from a wide
variety of uncooperative sources in order that it is possible to
convert between internal system times and localized civil times.

The leap seconds data are not different in any respect from all of the
other data in the IANA tz database.  Those data are also needed to
convert between internal system times and localized civil times.

If the IETF is going to claim no authority for the leap second
data then please justify the chain of authority for all of the
rest of the IANA tzdb, or else delete all of that as well.

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