| 1# @(#)leapseconds 7.14 2 |
| 3# Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. 4 5# The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds 6# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1 7# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see 8# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time, 9# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905. 10# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism --- 69 unchanged lines hidden --- |