Re: Updated leapsecs.dat

Alex Pennace wrote:
> The International Earth Rotation Service has scheduled the next leap
> second for December 31, 2008. Attached is the announcement and an
> updated leapsecs.dat.
> 
> Here is how I generated the new leapsecs.dat, using
> http://cr.yp.to/libtai/libtai-0.60.tar.gz:
> 
> echo +2005-12-31 >> leapsecs.txt
> echo +2008-12-31 >> leapsecs.txt
> make leapsecs
> ./leapsecs < leapsecs.txt > leapsecs.dat

Another option would be to use my leapsunpack package:

<URL:http://su.bze.ro/software/leapsunpack-0.05.tar.gz>

I wrote it during the long and unprecedented gap in new leapseconds,
so I'm not entirely sure it was useful until recently.


Toby