# @(#)leapseconds 8.6
# 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 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
# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation
# did not exist until the early 1970s.
# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so lines
# will typically look like:
# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:60 + R/S
# or
# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:59 - R/S
# If the leapsecond is Rolling (R) the given time is local time
# If the leapsecond is Stationary (S) the given time is UTC
# Leap YEAR MONTH DAY HH:MM:SS CORR R/S
Leap 1972 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1972 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1973 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1974 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1975 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1976 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1977 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1978 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1979 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1981 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1982 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1983 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1985 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1987 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1989 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1990 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1992 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1993 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1994 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1995 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 2008 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)
#
# SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE
#
# SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
# OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
# 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
# Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
# FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
# e-mail : services.iers@obspm.fr
# http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc
#
# Paris, 4 July 2008
#
# Bulletin C 36
#
# To authorities responsible
# for the measurement and
# distribution of time
#
# UTC TIME STEP
# on the 1st of January 2009
#
# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008.
# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
#
# 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 59s
# 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 60s
# 2009 January 1, 0h 0m 0s
#
# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:
#
# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2009 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 33s
# from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 34s
#
# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there
# will be no time step at the next possible date.
#
# Daniel GAMBIS
# Head
# Earth Orientation Center of IERS
# Observatoire de Paris, France
