--- old/test/jdk/sun/util/calendar/zi/tzdata/leapseconds 2017-11-07 15:23:47.776768407 +0530 +++ new/test/jdk/sun/util/calendar/zi/tzdata/leapseconds 2017-11-07 15:23:47.620768407 +0530 @@ -26,19 +26,18 @@ # 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 does not work, -# you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server. -# See for a list of secondary servers. +# 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 -# http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html +# 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 -# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time, -# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 . +# 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. @@ -81,5 +80,5 @@ 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 +# Updated through IERS Bulletin C54 +# File expires on: 28 June 2018