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diff --git a/leapseconds.awk b/leapseconds.awk index 21fe540791b5..66eb64d3dcab 100644 --- a/leapseconds.awk +++ b/leapseconds.awk @@ -8,19 +8,18 @@ BEGIN { print "# This file is in the public domain." print "" print "# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain" - print "# leap-seconds.list file available from most NIST time servers." - print "# If the URL <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list> does not work," - print "# you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server." - print "# See <http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi> for a list of secondary servers." + print "# leap-seconds.list file, which is copied from:" + print "# ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list" print "# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see" print "# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds" - print "# http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html" + print "# https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html" print "" print "# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service" print "# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1" print "# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see" - print "# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time," - print "# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.84965>." + print "# Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second." + print "# URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6. doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995" + print "# http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7909995/" print "# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism" print "# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation" print "# did not exist until the early 1970s." |