-------- In message <CACzrW9BueiVGHtZD5pTWPcWAEHqtBSR5++=2dzyxowgw7os...@mail.gmail.com> , Stephen Colebourne writes: >On 1 October 2014 21:19, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: >> The leap offset data doesn't change very often. Why should it be distributed >> via NTP rather than with the time-zone database or something similar? > >Because NTP already has support for it, and the data received by NTP >is then clear and complete.
And because the typical update cycle for the time-zone database is highly erratic and nonexistent on many legacy platforms. If leap-seconds were announced 10 years in advance it would be different. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
