leapseconds revision 121098 
1# @(#)leapseconds	7.16
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3# Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file.
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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
11# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation
12# did not exist until the early 1970s.
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14# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines
15# will typically look like:
16#	Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:60	+	R/S
17# or
18#	Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:59	-	R/S
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20# If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time
21# If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC
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23# Leap	YEAR	MONTH	DAY	HH:MM:SS	CORR	R/S
24Leap	1972	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
25Leap	1972	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
26Leap	1973	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
27Leap	1974	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
28Leap	1975	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
29Leap	1976	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
30Leap	1977	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
31Leap	1978	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
32Leap	1979	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
33Leap	1981	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
34Leap	1982	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
35Leap	1983	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
36Leap	1985	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
37Leap	1987	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
38Leap	1989	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
39Leap	1990	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
40Leap	1992	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
41Leap	1993	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
42Leap	1994	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
43Leap	1995	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
44Leap	1997	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
45Leap	1998	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
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47# 		INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS)
48# 		SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
49# 
50# SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
51# OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
52# 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
53# Tel.      : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
54# FAX       : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
55# Internet  : iers@obspm.fr
56# 
57# 				 		Paris, 1 July 2003
58# 
59# 						Bulletin C 26
60# 
61# 						To authorities responsible
62# 						for the measurement and
63# 						distribution of time
64# 
65# 			INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI
66# 
67# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2003.
68# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:
69# 		
70# 	from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice: UTC-TAI = -32 s
71# 
72# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
73# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
74# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there
75# will be no time step at the next possible date.
76# 
77# 					Daniel GAMBIS
78# 					Director
79# 					Earth Orientation Center of IERS
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