[LEAPSECS] Do lawyers care (know) about leap seconds?

[Hal Murray]

> (Nonetheless i repeat that having TAI plus the current LEAPDRIFT at hand
> would ease date and time calculation algorithms, and also that i don't
> understand why the existing information is thrown away instead of being
> delivered along with the UTC information over NTP.) 

The leap offset data doesn't change very often.  Why should it be distributed 
via NTP rather than with the time-zone database or something similar?

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