Umm, the presence of a copy of the IANA TZ distribution at https://www.ietf.org/timezones/ is not evidence of an "IETF leap-seconds list." This is bizarre, and probably a web server configuration error that even exists. The IETF is not involved in this list. I guess this shows why Google is an unreliable indicator of authority.
https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list is not a URL anyone should be depending on. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/code/leap-seconds.list is perhaps a better URL for the file in the tz distribution, but I'd hestitate to call it canonical. Start at https://www.iana.org/time-zones. But then the tz database isn't an authorative source, either. Per the NEWS file: The 'leapseconds' file is now generated automatically from a new file 'leap-seconds.list', which is a copy of <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list>. A new source file 'leapseconds.awk' implements this. The goal is simplification of the future maintenance of 'leapseconds'. That is, it's just a copy of NIST's file. Your email would make a lot more sense if you had included the URLs directly rather than referring to your source code and output file that happen to contain them. --jh...@mit.edu John Hawkinson Anders Wallin <anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com> wrote on Wed, 20 Dec 2017 at 13:51:21 +0200 in <CAPnVNRV=4gxkn5c3-zh6zfqwk6nhjncn9qkr_rlhu-gkfzy...@mail.gmail.com>: > So I'm doing the typical Wednesday thing you might do, that is writing a > small script for checking the SHA1 checksum in leap-seconds.list files. > I came up with [1] which produces output [2]. ... > For the IETF file there seems to be one byte, a "0" at the start of the > third group of 8 hex characters missing. > > This is somewhat funny/alarming, since the IETF leap-seconds.list is the > first thing that shows up (at least for me) on google when looking for > leap-seocnds.list. ... > [1] > https://github.com/aewallin/leap-seconds.list_sha1_check/blob/master/leap_sha.py > [2] > https://github.com/aewallin/leap-seconds.list_sha1_check/blob/master/output.txt _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
