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authorTim Parenti <tim@timtimeonline.com>2015-01-06 15:22:41 -0500
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-01-06 13:02:31 -0800
commita203788cfdb38d970086597d7173d9b31fc83aa4 (patch)
treec178f94151fc493f017817ce285093059a941d75
parent951395058c6d9e069ccbf767669bddc60bcbe0c8 (diff)
downloadtz-a203788cfdb38d970086597d7173d9b31fc83aa4.tar.gz
Positive leap second on 2015-06-30.
* leap-seconds.list: Per IERS Bulletin C49 (2015-01-05), a positive leap second will be inserted into the UTC time scale at the end of 2015-06-30. Update file from NIST, retrieved from <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.3629404800>.
-rwxr-xr-x[-rw-r--r--]leap-seconds.list24
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/leap-seconds.list b/leap-seconds.list
index 0980e7b..17c0466 100644..100755
--- a/leap-seconds.list
+++ b/leap-seconds.list
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
# and can be ignored for many purposes. These differences
# are tabulated in Circular T, which is published monthly
# by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures
-# (BIPM). See www.bipm.fr for more information.
+# (BIPM). See www.bipm.org for more information.
#
# 3. The current definition of the relationship between UTC
# and TAI dates from 1 January 1972. A number of different
@@ -127,6 +127,15 @@
# with, since the difficulty of unambiguously representing the epoch
# during the leap second does not arise.
#
+# Some systems implement leap seconds by amortizing the leap second
+# over the last few minutes of the day. The frequency of the local
+# clock is decreased (or increased) to realize the positive (or
+# negative) leap second. This method removes the time step described
+# above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct
+# in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment
+# period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official
+# defintion of UTC.
+#
# Questions or comments to:
# Judah Levine
# Time and Frequency Division
@@ -134,7 +143,7 @@
# Boulder, Colorado
# Judah.Levine@nist.gov
#
-# Last Update of leap second values: 11 January 2012
+# Last Update of leap second values: 5 January 2015
#
# The following line shows this last update date in NTP timestamp
# format. This is the date on which the most recent change to
@@ -142,7 +151,7 @@
# be identified by the unique pair of characters in the first two
# columns as shown below.
#
-#$ 3535228800
+#$ 3629404800
#
# The NTP timestamps are in units of seconds since the NTP epoch,
# which is 1 January 1900, 00:00:00. The Modified Julian Day number
@@ -190,10 +199,10 @@
# current -- the update time stamp, the data and the name of the file
# will not change.
#
-# Updated through IERS Bulletin C48
-# File expires on: 28 June 2015
+# Updated through IERS Bulletin C49
+# File expires on: 28 December 2015
#
-#@ 3644438400
+#@ 3660249600
#
2272060800 10 # 1 Jan 1972
2287785600 11 # 1 Jul 1972
@@ -221,6 +230,7 @@
3345062400 33 # 1 Jan 2006
3439756800 34 # 1 Jan 2009
3550089600 35 # 1 Jul 2012
+3644697600 36 # 1 Jul 2015
#
# the following special comment contains the
# hash value of the data in this file computed
@@ -236,4 +246,4 @@
# the hash line is also ignored in the
# computation.
#
-#h a4862ccd c6f43c6 964f3604 85944a26 b5cfad4e
+#h 45e70fa7 a9df2033 f4a49ab0 ec648273 7b6c22c