On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 09:42:59AM +0100, Martin Burnicki wrote: > The IERS file now also provides an expiration date, and the maintainer of > the TZ data base, Paul Eggert, has mentioned that he has added some code > which now provides the expiration date in the TZ DB leapsecond file: > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tzdist/current/msg01135.html
That's great. > However, I haven't tried this and I'm not sure which changes are required in > some libraries or applications to *evaluate* the expiration date. It would be nice if it didn't require any modifications in libraries that parse tzdata (e.g. libc), only in the applications that would use this information. Maybe create new special timezones, one mapping UTC to UTC-TAI offset and another mapping UTC to the delta in the UTC-TAI offset in the given day, with a special value for N/A that would be used after the expiration date. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
