[tz] tzdata for 2016 leap seconds

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Sep 2 14:38:48 UTC 2016


Jimmy Wang (jcwang) wrote:
> Is there anyway that this can be published sooner? Many of our upstream vendors won't release their tzdata update until the official tzdata is published.

This topic has come up recently on the mailing list; please see the threads 
containing these messages:

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-September/024031.html
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-August/023914.html

Briefly, I don't know why end users need leap seconds to be pushed out more 
urgently than other tzdata changes. Perhaps you could let us know why Cisco's 
end users need this?


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