[tz] Positive leap second on 2015-06-30.

Levine, Judah Dr. judah.levine at nist.gov
Thu Feb 5 14:51:57 UTC 2015


Hello,
   Sure, I can do that. However, I would have expected that you would not parse a comment line and would skip to the newline character when you read one.

Judah Levine


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> On Jan 30, 2015, at 7:50 PM, "Paul Eggert" <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
> Levine, Judah Dr. wrote:
>> It is a significant job to make and document the change and to push it out to all of our servers, so I probably won't correct the error for now.
> 
> When you fix those trivial typos, could you please also remove trailing spaces from the following three lines in leap-seconds.list?  I found them with the shell command "grep -n '[[:space:]]$' leap-seconds.list | sed 's/$/$/'".
> 
> 134:#    above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct $
> 135:#    in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment $
> 136:#    period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official $
> 
> It's a small thing, but the trailing white space does complicate tz maintenance slightly, particularly now that the popular Git version control system flags them.  E.g., please see:
> 
> https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/525886015de772fa5a9861ac33b170c3bcadd411
> http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-January/021977.html
> http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-January/021988.html
> 
> Thanks.


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