On Aug 18, 2019, at 1:36 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Howard Hinnant wrote:
I am working with them in the hopes of getting them to publis the IANA leapseconds information in_some_ form (the “right” subtree being one of those possible forms, the leapseconds source file being another).
I suggest the latter, as it's a lot smaller and less likely to go wrong.
That’s my hope as well.
Red Hat distributes /usr/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds, whereas Ubuntu distributes /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list.
Thanks, I didn’t know this.
These have the same leap-second info but use different formats; leapseconds is input suitable for zic, whereas leap-seconds.list is the format that the NIST uses. I don't know why GNU/Linux distributions differ in this area. I hope Apple chooses one format or the other rather than going their own way.
<fingers crossed!> Howard