Nov. 16, 2015
8:48 p.m.
Maybe this is a FAQ but I haven't found the answer. Having studied up the tzfile(5) format and written some code to produce these files, I'm wondering why the files in zoneinfo-leaps include the leap records AND adjust the transition times by the appropriate number of leap seconds. This seems redundant to me. If the file includes the leap second records, why not let the consumer adjust the transitions? -- Kenneth Murchison Principal Systems Software Engineer Carnegie Mellon University