On 15 Feb 2016 11:39, Martin Burnicki wrote:
please note the NIST leap-second file at ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/ has not yet been updated according to IERS bulletin C 51. It's still the version which has been published in July 2015, and will expire in June 2016.
I saw that also tzdata2016a.tar.gz which has been published 2016-01-26 still contains the old leap second file even though bulletin C 51 has already been published 2016-01-11. I had the same thought.
I prepared the attached patch which uses the file from IERS shortly after the 2016-01-11 announcement, but was sitting on it while we waited for NIST, since the conversation at the time seemed to indicate that NIST was our preferred source. I think, though, that since IERS actually decides the leap seconds and seems to be updating their file more promptly, it might be worthwhile to consider switching to IERS as our canonical source for this file. -- Tim Parenti