Fwd: Re: Typo in /etc/ntp/leap-seconds

[Cy Schubert]

I should also mention that I have contacted USNO through their web form to 
advise them of the spelling error. I haven't received a reply. I will send 
an email to the general USNO email address next.

I want to avoid local modifications to the file a much as possible because 
of its update frequency.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy at FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org

	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.


In message <201610241940.u9OJe9cS076144 at slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert 
writes:
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> The spelling error is sort-of "intentional." The file, 
> base/head/etc/ntp/leap-seconds and descendants, was fetched from the USNO 
> (US Naval Observatory) ftp site. Had I fetched the ISC version or the IETF 
> version, the spelling error would not exist.
> 
> Proactively answering the next anticipated question people might ask, what 
> decides which file is fetched? Simply, of the leap-seconds files most 
> recently updated, from USNO, ISC, and IETF, the file with the latest expiry 
> date is the one chosen for commit into base. Some sources do not update 
> their leap-seconds files if no leap second is announced. USNO always 
> publishes a new leap-seconds file regardless of whether a leap second is or 
> is not announced.
> 
> The version fetched by the ntp rc script is the IETF version because the 
> URL is the only one of the three to use http or https. USNO and ISC post 
> their files on FTP servers, which is not preferred.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
> FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy at FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org
> 
> 	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
> 
> 
> In message <bf2b6365-78ae-5524-427a-9f01b1516dac at FreeBSD.org>, Matthew 
> Seaman w
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> > 
> > Hi, Cy,
> > 
> > As the person who committed the leap-seconds support this might be of
> > interest to you.  Well, maybe.  It's a trivial spelling mistake in the
> > comments in /etc/ntp/leap-seconds
> > 
> > 	Cheers,
> > 
> > 	Matthew
> > 
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject: Re: Typo in /etc/ntp/leap-seconds
> > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:02:07 +0100
> > From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > 
> > On 2016/10/24 16:40, Dr. A. Haakh wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >=20
> > > the last change of leap-seconds introduced the following typo:
> > >=20
> > >  #
> > > -#      3. The current definition of the relationship between UTC
> > > +#      3. The current defintion of the relationship between UTC
> > >  #      and TAI dates from 1 January 1972. A number of different
> > > =20
> > 
> > Yes, correct: the misspelling does exist in /etc/ntp/leap-seconds, (even
> > in 11.0-STABLE), but your patch is reversed.
> > 
> > The spelling error is already fixed in /var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds which
> > is what the OS uses by default and is pulled down from the net by a
> > periodic job.
> > 
> > 	Cheers,
> > 
> > 	Matthew
> 
>