Dear users of tzdb, IERS has announced a new leap second at the end of year 2016, see https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat Another point: I have myself written a time library in Java called Time4J which contains a tz compiler based on your data and which also evaluates the leap second file contained in tz-data. Hence this library could be listed in the file "tz-link" within the section "Other tz compilers" maybe with this description: <a href="https://github.com/MenoData/Time4J/">Time4J – Advanced date, time and interval library for Java</a> , uses the class <code>net.time4j.tool.TimezoneRepositoryCompiler.java</code> located in TZTool-module that compiles <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source into a Time4J-specific binary format. Time4J is available under a LGPLv2.1-licence. Cheers and thanks for your very useful work Meno
On 07/07/2016 09:06 AM, Meno Hochschild wrote:
Thanks for the heads-up; I forwarded it to NIST, as they are upstream from us. (We don't copy the IERS files due to unresolved copyright issues.)
I have myself written a time library in Java called Time4J
Thanks for the pointer. I modifed your suggested description somewhat and installed the attached patch into the experimental version on GitHub; please let us know if it has any problems.
Hi Paul, Is there any estimation when the new tzdata package containing the leap second information will be available? We need to include it in our SW in the upcoming weeks. Br, Tibor -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu<mailto:Paul%20Eggert%20%3ceggert@cs.ucla.edu%3e>> To: Meno Hochschild <mhochschild@gmx.de<mailto:Meno%20Hochschild%20%3cmhochschild@gmx.de%3e>>, Time Zone Database list <tz@iana.org<mailto:Time%20Zone%20Database%20list%20%3ctz@iana.org%3e>> Subject: Re: [tz] New leap second Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:48:03 +0200 On 07/07/2016 09:06 AM, Meno Hochschild wrote:
Thanks for the heads-up; I forwarded it to NIST, as they are upstream from us. (We don't copy the IERS files due to unresolved copyright issues.)
I have myself written a time library in Java called Time4J
Thanks for the pointer. I modifed your suggested description somewhat and installed the attached patch into the experimental version on GitHub; please let us know if it has any problems.
Tibor Vidók wrote:
Is there any estimation when the new tzdata package containing the leap second information will be available?
I expect we'll discover the need for daylight-saving changes in September and October for later this year, and the leap-second change won't happen until after that anyway, so my guess is Octoberish. (December at the latest. :-) If you need to push out something right now please feel free to use what's on GitHub now; you can combine its leap-second file with the other files of the current tz release.
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