[LEAPSECS] Automation

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <1230843729.9555.2.camel at glastonbury>
            Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org> writes:

: 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.


But leap seconds are already hard coded, or at least there's a table
of them, on many systems that need to grok leap seconds.  similar to
the timezone 'hard coding'.

Warner