1# @(#)leapseconds 7.14
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3# $FreeBSD: head/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds 86222 2001-11-09 19:17:59Z wollman $
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5# Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file.
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7# The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds
8# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
9# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see
10# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,
11# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905.
12# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism
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3# $FreeBSD: head/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds 86222 2001-11-09 19:17:59Z wollman $
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5# Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file.
6
7# The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds
8# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
9# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see
10# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,
11# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905.
12# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism
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