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| author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-29 14:01:46 +0000 |
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| committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-29 14:01:46 +0000 |
| commit | 1095698edd7fef47c5cf24927841d1516a5d7c65 (patch) | |
| tree | 2becb0b6e0698eb8fe2b83cf2207c42c07eec731 /share/zoneinfo/leapseconds | |
| parent | ce772cb48b6fc556bd42032c77256b4fd7ac89c2 (diff) | |
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Merge from vendor branch.
PR: 17431
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000d.tar.gz
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diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds index 1cd114b..4386eb1 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds +++ b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ -# @(#)leapseconds 7.11 +# @(#)leapseconds 7.12 +# $FreeBSD$ # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. # The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds -# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of TAI (atomic time); see +# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1 +# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see # Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time, # Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905. # There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism |
