On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 00:00, Ashley Yakeley
Bjorn Buckwalter wrote:
leapseconds-announced is a pragmatic, if imperfect, improvement over my past practices. It provides a LeapSecondTable with all leap seconds announced to date (hence the name). Once the IERS announces[3] another leap second the package will need an update and all code using it a recompile. While this precludes its use in long-running production applications it is eminently adequate for my one-off uses or for applications that can afford to recompile infrequently.
You should consider using the tz database, which provides a leap-seconds table in the "right/UTC" timezone (and much other useful information).
Thanks for the pointer. My "source" is the Earth Orientation Parameter (EOP) data at http://www.celestrak.com/SpaceData/; specifically I autogenerate the module from http://www.celestrak.com/SpaceData/eop19620101.txt. Probably looks more complicated than necessary but I'm parsing the file anyway for other purposes. -Bjorn