Thank you, Steve, Paul, Martin, Brian, Tim for your informative responses, resources and clarifications. On Wed Feb 7, 2024 at 3:03 PM GMT, Brian Inglis wrote:
IIRC the leap-seconds.list file loosely follows the format used by NTP for digital security certificate files generated by ntp-keygen.
Interesting. On Wed Feb 7, 2024 at 5:04 PM GMT, Tim Parenti wrote:
The other data files distributed by tzdb have long been tab/space-agnostic, so our general response is that parsers should be, too.
Seems like the way forward for Hare. I was hoping to coordinate a formal definition of the current informal format, defined apart from the file as a separate document, perhaps even an RFC, or even for a newer format. However, the file format seems sensible and stable enough currently, and I am satisfied with moving on. Again, thank you all b