<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Random832 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:random832@fastmail.com" target="_blank">random832@fastmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Bradley White <<a href="mailto:bww@acm.org">bww@acm.org</a>> writes:<br>
> Because ...<br>
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> You also need the leap records to determine the magnitude of the<br>
> tm_sec field during leaps (see the "hit" variable, which probably<br>
> shouldn't be a bool BTW).<br>
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</span>I think the question was the opposite - not why the leap records exist,<br>
but why they're not the _only_ difference between a leap tzfile and a<br>
non-leap one.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That may be a possibility, but in general it is preferable to do things at zic time over tzfile read time. </div></div></div></div>