1 # Allowance for leap seconds added to each time zone file.
3 # This file is in the public domain.
5 # This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain
6 # leap-seconds.list file available from most NIST time servers.
7 # If the URL <ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list> does not work,
8 # you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server.
9 # See <http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi> for a list of secondary servers.
10 # For more about leap-seconds.list, please see
11 # The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds
12 # http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html
14 # The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
15 # periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
16 # (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see
17 # Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,
18 # Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.84965>.
19 # There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism
20 # accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation
21 # did not exist until the early 1970s.
23 # The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines
24 # will typically look like:
25 # Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:60 + R/S
27 # Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:59 - R/S
29 # If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time.
30 # If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC.
32 # Leap YEAR MONTH DAY HH:MM:SS CORR R/S
33 Leap 1972 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
34 Leap 1972 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
35 Leap 1973 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
36 Leap 1974 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
37 Leap 1975 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
38 Leap 1976 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
39 Leap 1977 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
40 Leap 1978 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
41 Leap 1979 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
42 Leap 1981 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
43 Leap 1982 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
44 Leap 1983 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
45 Leap 1985 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
46 Leap 1987 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
47 Leap 1989 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
48 Leap 1990 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
49 Leap 1992 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
50 Leap 1993 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
51 Leap 1994 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
52 Leap 1995 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
53 Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
54 Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
55 Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
56 Leap 2008 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
57 Leap 2012 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
58 Leap 2015 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
59 Leap 2016 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
61 # Updated through IERS Bulletin C52
62 # File expires on: 28 June 2017