Nov. 17, 2015
6:02 a.m.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
Bradley White <bww@acm.org> writes:
Because ...
You also need the leap records to determine the magnitude of the tm_sec field during leaps (see the "hit" variable, which probably shouldn't be a bool BTW).
I think the question was the opposite - not why the leap records exist, but why they're not the _only_ difference between a leap tzfile and a non-leap one.
That may be a possibility, but in general it is preferable to do things at zic time over tzfile read time.