Good work with the IERS folks Martin!
I agree with this approach, it is they way to do the authoritative side
of things. USNO and NIST is at best providing a service in this aspect.
Cheers,
Magnus
On 01/12/2015 10:53 PM, Martin Burnicki wrote:
Brooks Harris wrote:
IERS publishes this - Its up to date (includes 2014-07-01) as of today
as I access it (2015-01-12).
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/Leap_Second_History.dat
I'm not sure when it was updated, maybe with their Bullitin C
announcement.
ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat
If would really be good if there was one authoritative soure for this,
and that there was a uniform format.
I've suggested at various occasions that the IERS should be the
authoritative source for a leap second file.
One reason is that the IERS is the institution which schedules leap
seconds, and from a global (Earth/countries) point of view, another
strong reason is that the IERS is an international institution which may
easier be accepted by some foreign countries than the NIST, which is a
U.S. institution.
About one year ago I contacted the folks at IERS and asked them to put
an expiration date into their leap second file since the existing one
didn't have one.
In the directory listing at http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ if you
look at the previous version (Leap_Second_History.datsave from January
2014) then there was no expiration date, but the current one
(Leap_Second_History.dat from January 2015) now has it.
Actually there is some discussion with the IERS folks to provide in
addition a file in NIST format which can directly be used by NTP or
TZDB, and later by the tzdist servers. Once this has been done there is
an authoritative source for this file.
Martin
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