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Re: [PATCH]: update leapseconds
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:
> As I understand it, the leapseconds file (like most of the other files in the
> glibc timezone directory) is intended only for test data, and is not kept
> up-to-date. Perhaps this should be stated more clearly in the files' headers.
>
> Another possibility would be to remove these files, as purposely out-of-date
> files cause confusion among glibc contributors.
Maybe move them to e.g. timezone/test-sources? (We already have
timezone/testdata for *binary* timezone files used as test inputs to the
timezone code, so it's probably a good idea to keep the different kinds of
test inputs separate.)
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Joseph S. Myers
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