svn commit: r347488 - head/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd

[Cy Schubert]

In message <201905111637.x4BGbAWj032623 at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. 
Grimes"
writes:
> > On Sat, 2019-05-11 at 14:22 +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> > > Author: delphij
> > > Date: Sat May 11 14:22:21 2019
> > > New Revision: 347488
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/347488
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   Update leap-seconds to leap-seconds.3757622400.
> > >   
> > 
> > For future reference:  it's a bit better to get this file from NIST [*]
> > than from USNO.  The USNO boilerplate is full of typos, and USNO
> > incorrectly adjusts the "last update date" metadata every time they
> > change the expiration date of the file.  That's not correct... as the
> > boilerplate itself states, that field is only supposed to be updated
> > when new leap seconds are added to the file.
>
> I would be very happy if that information would end up in the
> top of, or next to the leap-seconds file so that it was followed
> in the future, rather than being folk lore.
>
> Thanks,
> Rod

Leap seconds hasn't been updated upstream since 2017. USNO updates the 
file when they last paid attention to the file by not updating it. NIST 
only updates the file when there is indeed an update, that being Ian's 
point.


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