[tz] leap-seconds.list format

Martin Burnicki martin.burnicki at meinberg.de
Tue Feb 13 17:31:10 UTC 2024


Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2/12/24 10:33, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> 
>> @Paul: I've added the URL to my page. Please let me know if I should 
>> keep the other links to the Github repo and your homepage, or whether 
>> I should remove them.
> 
> I'd keep them, thanks.
> 
>> Concerning the PGP signatures of the download archives:
>>
>> IMO checking the signatures would be much easier for potential users 
>> of the .gz or .lz archives if the signatures would be available for 
>> download as files at https://www.iana.org/time-zones, e.g.
>>
>> tzdb-2024a.tar.lz.asc for an ASCII signature, or
>> tzdb-2024a.tar.lz.sig for a binary signature.
> 
> Yes, they're available, e.g.,:
> 
> https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/tzdb-2024a.tar.lz.asc
> 
> and similarly for tzcode and tzdata.
> 
> Perhaps there should be be links to these signatures from 
> <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>, in another column of the "Latest 
> version" table.

Yes, that would be great. Otherwise, someone who just comes across the 
download page at IANA does't even know that signatures are available.


Martin
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