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diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds deleted file mode 100644 index a3c95ef..0000000 --- a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds +++ /dev/null @@ -1,87 +0,0 @@ -# <pre> -# @(#)leapseconds 8.9 -# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of -# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. - -# 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 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 -# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation -# did not exist until the early 1970s. - -# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines -# will typically look like: -# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:60 + R/S -# or -# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:59 - R/S - -# If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time -# If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC - -# Leap YEAR MONTH DAY HH:MM:SS CORR R/S -Leap 1972 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1972 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1973 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1974 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1975 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1976 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1977 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1978 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1979 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1981 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1982 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1983 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1985 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1987 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1989 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1990 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1992 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1993 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1994 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1995 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S -Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -Leap 2008 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S - -# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) -# -# SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE -# -# SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE -# OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS -# 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) -# Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 -# FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 -# Internet : services.iers@obspm.fr -# -# Paris, 4 July 2009 -# -# Bulletin C 38 -# -# To authorities responsible -# for the measurement and -# distribution of time -# -# INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI -# -# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2009. -# The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the -# International Atomic Time TAI is : -# -# from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -34 s -# -# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December -# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every -# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there -# will be no time step at the next possible date. -# -# Daniel GAMBIS -# Director -# Earth Orientation Center of IERS -# Observatoire de Paris, France |