From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 114121 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2018 23:59:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 114110 invoked by uid 89); 18 Mar 2018 23:59:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=among X-HELO: zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH]: update leapseconds To: Gianni Tedesco , libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <1521318621.12178.2.camel@scaramanga.co.uk> From: Paul Eggert Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:59:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1521318621.12178.2.camel@scaramanga.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00443.txt.bz2 As I understand it, the leapseconds file (like most of the other files in the glibc timezone directory) is intended only for test data, and is not kept up-to-date. Perhaps this should be stated more clearly in the files' headers. Another possibility would be to remove these files, as purposely out-of-date files cause confusion among glibc contributors.