leapseconds revision 287545
1287545Sdelphij# Allowance for leap seconds added to each time zone file.
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3287545Sdelphij# This file is in the public domain.
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5287545Sdelphij# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain
6287545Sdelphij# leap-seconds.list file available from most NIST time servers.
7287545Sdelphij# If the URL <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list> does not work,
8287545Sdelphij# you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server.
9287545Sdelphij# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see
10287545Sdelphij# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds
11287545Sdelphij# http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html
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13287545Sdelphij# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
14287545Sdelphij# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
1558787Sru# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see
162742Swollman# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,
17287545Sdelphij# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.84965>.
182742Swollman# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism
192742Swollman# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation
202742Swollman# did not exist until the early 1970s.
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222742Swollman# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines
232742Swollman# will typically look like:
242742Swollman#	Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:60	+	R/S
252742Swollman# or
262742Swollman#	Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:59	-	R/S
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28287545Sdelphij# If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time.
29287545Sdelphij# If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC.
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312742Swollman# Leap	YEAR	MONTH	DAY	HH:MM:SS	CORR	R/S
322742SwollmanLeap	1972	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
332742SwollmanLeap	1972	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
342742SwollmanLeap	1973	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
352742SwollmanLeap	1974	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
362742SwollmanLeap	1975	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
372742SwollmanLeap	1976	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
382742SwollmanLeap	1977	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
392742SwollmanLeap	1978	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
402742SwollmanLeap	1979	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
412742SwollmanLeap	1981	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
422742SwollmanLeap	1982	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
432742SwollmanLeap	1983	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
442742SwollmanLeap	1985	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
452742SwollmanLeap	1987	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
462742SwollmanLeap	1989	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
472742SwollmanLeap	1990	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
482742SwollmanLeap	1992	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
492742SwollmanLeap	1993	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
502742SwollmanLeap	1994	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
5139871SphkLeap	1995	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
5239871SphkLeap	1997	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
5339898SphkLeap	1998	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
54147771SphkLeap	2005	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
55181424SedwinLeap	2008	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
56233445SedwinLeap	2012	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
57287545SdelphijLeap	2015	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
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59287545Sdelphij#	Updated through IERS Bulletin C50
60287545Sdelphij#	File expires on:  28 June 2016
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