On Thu, Dec 7, 2023, 12:26 AM Philip Paeps <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2023-12-07 15:06:58 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 11:34 PM Philip Paeps <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On 2023-12-07 14:26:05 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote:
> >>> We should point to bipm
> >>> https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list since
> >>> they
> >>> are
> >>> the source of truth, no?
> >>
> >> I went for the IANA copy because data.iana.org is a much shorter and
> >> trustworthy looking URL.  And it's also where other operating systems
> >> get their copies.
> >>
> >> (There's a thread on the IANA tz mailing list about how up to date
> >> the
> >> IANA copy is.)
> >>
> >
> > Shorter URLs aren't necessarily better..  we should have this be a
> > list
> > though...
>
> We could also mirror our own copy on freebsd.org, but then we have to
> keep it up to date.
>
> That's probably the best solution.  Let me ponder this for a bit.
>

No. That's a terrible idea. We have better things to do with our
infrastructure.  Just make a list of two: nist and bipm.

Warner

Philip
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> Philip Paeps
> Senior Reality Engineer
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