[LEAPSECS] Time Synchronization in Financial markets

[Hal Murray]

> Meantime there is no standardized way to  keep the Leap Second tables
> automatically updated to begin with.

It's being distributed with the time zone data.  Hopefully, all the major 
distros/OSes will include it by the end of the year.  (Don't hold your 
breath.)

>From Debian jessie
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10384 Feb 22  2016 /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.lis
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> Not being a traditionalist myself, I don't feel that there is anything wrong
> with 23:59:60 as a label for a particular second.

Unfortunately, POSIX says that second doesn't exist so a lot of the software 
you use can't handle it.


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