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Re: [Ntp] Leap second draft

Daniel Franke <dfoxfranke@gmail.com> Sat, 30 March 2019 17:06 UTC

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From: Daniel Franke <dfoxfranke@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 13:05:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Leap second draft
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 11:29 AM Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:
> I think this is all not very relevant for NTP where we care about
> the current time, not about what happened in 1972. I'm not sure
> we need all that historic information in the draft.

My earlier, off-list reply to Steve was:

> I'll do my best to revise the background on historical UTC and TAI so
> that it is fully accurate while not overwhelming the reader with
> information that isn't necessary for understanding the rest of the
> draft. Patches welcome if they meet those desiderata.

I've put the XML source for my draft into a git repo at
https://github.com/dfoxfranke/ntp-leap-seconds. The latest HEAD has
revised text which I think should be satisfactory.

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