On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:15:33 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > The way these files are supposed to work is that you set the system > clock to the time with leap-seconds included (UTC+leap, or TAI-10) and > copy the entire "right" set of files to the main zoneinfo directory > (upstream provides them as parallel directories to encourage this). > > And everyone else sets the system clock to UTC and uses the "posix" files. > > https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#leapsec > > We don't have much support for a non-UTC system clock (e.g. openntpd only > seems to copy the flag from the server and doesn't use it to adjust the > clock), and the files definitely cause some confusion. Should we follow > FreeBSD and Solaris and not install the leap-second files at all?
I think so. Unless there are programs that use these files directly I don't see a real use for them. - todd
