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| author | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-12-30 08:13:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-12-30 08:13:51 +0000 |
| commit | 00380ae2d71023dec5083d9fb3a688d8b2283dac (patch) | |
| tree | 62a3f6439375d002b2105bf31238c36f01826bc7 /leapseconds | |
| parent | fa550f940d8d5c5407528a8b5618c505f31156a7 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/leapseconds b/leapseconds index 148aa8ee3ef5..325f3a1d1383 100644 --- a/leapseconds +++ b/leapseconds @@ -19,9 +19,12 @@ # See: Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second. # URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6. doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995 # <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7909995>. + # 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. +# did not exist. The first ("1 Jan 1972") data line in leap-seconds.list +# does not denote a leap second; it denotes the start of the current definition +# of UTC. # The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines # will typically look like: |