[PATCH]: update leapseconds
Gianni Tedesco
gianni@scaramanga.co.uk
Mon Mar 19 07:54:00 GMT 2018
On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 16:59 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> As I understand it, the leapseconds file (like most of the other
> files in the
> glibc timezone directory) is intended only for test data, and is not
> kept
> up-to-date. Perhaps this should be stated more clearly in the files'
> headers.
>
> Another possibility would be to remove these files, as purposely out-
> of-date
> files cause confusion among glibc contributors.
Ah, I was under the impression they were used when converting in and
out of "right" timezones. But now I see that information is in the
tzinfo file itself.
My bad.
Gianni
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