[LEAPSECS] Automation

[Ashley Yakeley]

On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 09:41 -0700, Rob Seaman wrote:

> They can't be naively automated.  The schedule is currently  

> predictable 6 months in advance.  Nobody has objected to a longer  

> schedule; we're positively giddy to give it a try.  NTP is proof of  

> concept that automation is possible once the schedule is released.


This might encourage software engineers to do the wrong thing, that is,
hard-code a leap-second table.

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Ashley Yakeley