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, which can be copied from
7 # <ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list>
8 # or <ftp://ftp.boulder.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list>
9 # or <ftp://tycho.usno.navy.mil/pub/ntp/leap-seconds.list>.
10 # For more about leap-seconds.list, please see
11 # The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds
12 # <https://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)
17 # and publishes leap second data in a copyrighted file
18 # <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/Leap_Second.dat>.
19 # See: Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second.
20 # URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6. doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995
21 # <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7909995>.
22 # There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism
23 # accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation
26 # The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines
27 # will typically look like:
28 # Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:60 + R/S
30 # Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:59 - R/S
32 # If the leap second is Rolling (R) the given time is local time (unused here).
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 # POSIX timestamps for the data in this file:
65 # Updated through IERS Bulletin C56
66 # File expires on: 28 June 2019