On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 03:49:15PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> Matt Selsky is working on Pythonizing the script that grabs a new leap second 
> file.  The idea is to run a cron job that keeps it up to date.  That opens an 
> interesting can of worms.

I've been pondering about using ntp-classic's script for that in
Debian, but decided not to.  I also don't know if there is any
other Linux distribution that automates this.

However, I already get a /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
from the tzdata package that updates the timezone information and
I should probably look into using that file to update things.
Those files get regular updates.  The t...@iana.org list has been
notified, the git repository updated, there just hans't been a
release since.

There has been a proposal by Poul-Henning Kamp to use an DNS
A-record for it, see:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/20151122.html

I don't know if this went anywhere.


Kurt

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