>From c9eb65844adc88a6877f2ad7bf3d2b44103a9d83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 18:52:58 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] Update NIST leap-seconds.list URL (Thanks to Tim Parenti and Brian Inglis.) * NEWS, leapseconds.awk (BEGIN): Update URL in commentary. --- NEWS | 5 ++++- leapseconds.awk | 8 +++----- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 70635a1..fd73ca8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes tz-link.htm now covers how to apply tzdata changes to clients. (Thanks to Jorge F��bregas for the AIX link.) It also mentions MySQL. + The leap-seconds.list URL has been updated to something that is + more reliable for tzdb. (Thanks to Tim Parenti and Brian Inglis.) + Release 2017b - 2017-03-17 07:30:38 -0700 Briefly: Haiti has resumed DST. @@ -2099,7 +2102,7 @@ Release 2013e - 2013-09-19 23:50:04 -0700 The 'leapseconds' file is now generated automatically from a new file 'leap-seconds.list', which is a copy of - . + A new source file 'leapseconds.awk' implements this. The goal is simplification of the future maintenance of 'leapseconds'. diff --git a/leapseconds.awk b/leapseconds.awk index 8cd2f7e..405ce3a 100644 --- a/leapseconds.awk +++ b/leapseconds.awk @@ -8,13 +8,11 @@ BEGIN { print "# This file is in the public domain." print "" print "# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain" - print "# leap-seconds.list file available from most NIST time servers." - print "# If the URL does not work," - print "# you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server." - print "# See for a list of secondary servers." + print "# leap-seconds.list file, which is copied from:" + print "# ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list" print "# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see" print "# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds" - print "# http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html" + print "# https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html" print "" print "# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service" print "# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1" -- 2.7.4