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# This file is in the public domain.
BEGIN {
- printf "%s", "\
-# Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file.\n\
-\n\
-# This file is in the public domain.\n\
-\n\
-# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain\n\
-# leap-seconds.list file available from most NIST time servers.\n\
-# If the URL <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list> does not work,\n\
-# you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server.\n\
-# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see\n\
-# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds\n\
-# <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html>.\n\
-\n\
-# The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds\n\
-# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1\n\
-# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see\n\
-# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,\n\
-# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.84965>.\n\
-# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism\n\
-# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation\n\
-# did not exist until the early 1970s.\n\
-\n\
-# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines\n\
-# will typically look like:\n\
-# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:60 + R/S\n\
-# or\n\
-# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:59 - R/S\n\
-\n\
-# If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time.\n\
-# If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC.\n\
-\n\
-# Leap YEAR MONTH DAY HH:MM:SS CORR R/S\n\
-"
+ print "# Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file."
+ print ""
+ print "# This file is in the public domain."
+ print ""
+ print "# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain"
+ print "# leap-seconds.list file available from most NIST time servers."
+ print "# If the URL <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list> does not work,"
+ print "# you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server."
+ print "# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see"
+ print "# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds"
+ print "# <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html>."
+ print ""
+ print "# The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds"
+ print "# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1"
+ print "# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see"
+ print "# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,"
+ print "# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.84965>."
+ print "# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism"
+ print "# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation"
+ print "# did not exist until the early 1970s."
+ print ""
+ print "# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines"
+ print "# will typically look like:"
+ print "# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:60 + R/S"
+ print "# or"
+ print "# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:59 - R/S"
+ print ""
+ print "# If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time."
+ print "# If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC."
+ print ""
+ print "# Leap YEAR MONTH DAY HH:MM:SS CORR R/S"
}
/^ *$/ { next }