[tz] zoneinfo vs zoneinfo-leaps

[Random832]

Ken Murchison <murch at andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> Having studied up the tzfile(5) format and written some code to
> produce these files, I'm wondering why the files in zoneinfo-leaps
> include the leap records AND adjust the transition times by the
> appropriate number of leap seconds.  This seems redundant to me.  If
> the file includes the leap second records, why not let the consumer
> adjust the transitions?

Because the values are meant to be time_t timestamps, and for these
files they're intended for a notional system in whose time_t 946684822
rather than 946684800 represents a date of 2000-01-01 00:00:00 UTC..