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*** 24,46 **** # Allowance for leap seconds added to each time zone file. # This file is in the public domain. # This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain ! # leap-seconds.list file available from most NIST time servers. ! # If the URL <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list> does not work, ! # you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server. ! # See <http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi> for a list of secondary servers. # For more about leap-seconds.list, please see # The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds ! # http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html # The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service # periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1 # (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see ! # Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time, ! # Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.84965>. # There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism # accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation # did not exist until the early 1970s. # The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines --- 24,45 ---- # Allowance for leap seconds added to each time zone file. # This file is in the public domain. # This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain ! # leap-seconds.list file, which is copied from: ! # ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list # For more about leap-seconds.list, please see # The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds ! # https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html # The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service # periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1 # (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see ! # Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second. ! # URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6. doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995 ! # http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7909995/ # There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism # accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation # did not exist until the early 1970s. # The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines
*** 79,85 **** Leap 2008 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S Leap 2012 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 2015 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 2016 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S ! # Updated through IERS Bulletin C53 ! # File expires on: 28 December 2017 --- 78,84 ---- Leap 2008 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S Leap 2012 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 2015 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 2016 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S ! # Updated through IERS Bulletin C54 ! # File expires on: 28 June 2018
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