Re: will libtai's leap-second table be updated?

--e89a8f838b376a5ebc04c64ec4cb
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

>
> Bear in mind that any external reference used to track the history of leap
> seconds is dependent on some maintainer somewhere keeping that reference
> updated. It can be abandoned, taken offline, or forged and you have a
> dependency
> on trusting that source. I maintain my own copy of leapsecs.txt and update
> it
> when I read an IERS bulletin notifying me of a new leap second.
>
>

off topic, but

one could also say that finding a way to provide such an infrastructure
would constitute a "solution", whereas NOT providing such an infrastructure
constitutes a "non-solution". The latter being a good description of libtai.

Libtai provides millions of years of consistent time format... oh except
every 18 months when a leap second occurs, when one has to (cough, sputter)
*manually* update the leap-second table.


is anyone interested in helping to provide a true Solution to this problem?

-paul

--e89a8f838b376a5ebc04c64ec4cb
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"m=
argin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Bear in mind that any external reference used to track the history of leap<=
br>
seconds is dependent on some maintainer somewhere keeping that reference<br=
>
updated. It can be abandoned, taken offline, or forged and you have a depen=
dency<br>
on trusting that source. I maintain my own copy of leapsecs.txt and update =
it<br>
when I read an IERS bulletin notifying me of a new leap second.<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888"></font></span><br></blockquo=
te><div><br><br>off topic, but<br><br>one could also say that finding a way=
 to provide such an infrastructure would constitute a &quot;solution&quot;,=
 whereas NOT providing such an infrastructure constitutes a &quot;non-solut=
ion&quot;. The latter being a good description of libtai.<br>
<br>Libtai provides millions of years of consistent time format... oh excep=
t every 18 months when a leap second occurs, when one has to (cough, sputte=
r) *manually* update the leap-second table.<br><br><br>is anyone interested=
 in helping to provide a true Solution to this problem?<br>
<br>-paul<br></div></div><br><br><br><br>

--e89a8f838b376a5ebc04c64ec4cb--