[tz] Leap Second Support Interval Field Request - RFC8536
Michael H Deckers
michael.h.deckers at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 6 11:48:47 UTC 2019
On 2019-12-06, Arthur David Olson proposed
a method to expose in TZif the expiration date
of the leap second information:
> One odd possibility below.
>
> @dashdashado
>
> Zone Etc/Leapendstat 0 - PRE 2020 Jun 28
> 0 - POST
>
Why not produce a tzdb Zone for TAI? As if we had
Zone Etc/TAI 0:00:10 - TAI 1972 Jul 1
0:00:11 - TAI 1973 Jan 1
....
0:00:35 - TAI 2015 Jul 1
0:00:36 - TAI 2017 Jan 1
0:00:37 - TAI 2020 Jun 28
0:00:37 - N_A
After all, the Bulletins C of the IERS specify TAI as
a function of UTC, just like a tzdb "timezone".
Michael Deckers.
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