On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM Hal Murray via devel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [email protected] said: > > The distros have gotten used to pushing tzdata every 6 months. > > If we could get the leapsecond data into that package, it would be > ideal. > > It's already in the package they send to IANA and on the IANA servers. > > The tzdata-base is updated more often than every 6 months. They are up to > "g" > so far this year. But they come in clusters rather than a uniform > distribution. Examples are at the bottom of: > ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/ > > Latest version is here: > ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/leap-seconds.list > I can't find a https URL to just that file. There are URLs for the whole > tarball. > > The catch is they don't update it automatically. Somebody has to tell > them to > fetch a new version. No big deal, just an email. I'm pretty sure we > could > get them to do a leap-seconds only release if they didn't have any other > changes to push out. > > If we wanted to be helpful, we could write a script that does whatever and > sends them a merge request. > > --------- > > The other problem is to get distros to distribute the leap-seconds file. > I > poked Fedora, they did it, but got the wrong format. (I didn't even know > there was another format.) Time to poke them again. > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > Ubuntu ( or clan Debian) seems to be the exception to the rule afaict. Slackware and NetBSD package the non-usable derivative and most other distros seem to not include it at all. I could try posting an ebuild patch to Gentoo, and look at a PKGBUILD patch for Arch. https://github.com/eggert/tz/ seems to be the repository for the tz data build files with the leap-seconds.list file convieniently in the root directory. I might pencil in on my (lack of a) calender to check for a bulletin C in January and July.
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