Hi Tony,
On 2016-12-02 08:43 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't know what the effective latency is from IERS -> TZdata -> distros ->
releases -> users -> computers, but 6 months is only going to be enough
if everybody pays maximum attention *EVERY* *BLOODY* *TIME*.
The cascade actually goes IERS -> NIST -> tz because the NIST leap seconds
announcement is public domain whereas the IERS announcement has an unclear
copyright status.
Can you explain that copyright issue further? I was under the impression
Bulletin C and related from IERS were public.
-Brooks
And since leap seconds are rather peripheral to the tz
database's purpose, they aren't pushed out amazingly swiftly.
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-July/023867.html
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-August/023914.html
Tony.
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