From 1095698edd7fef47c5cf24927841d1516a5d7c65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ru Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:01:46 +0000 Subject: Merge from vendor branch. PR: 17431 Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000d.tar.gz --- share/zoneinfo/leapseconds | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'share/zoneinfo/leapseconds') 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 -- cgit v1.1