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- #
- # In the following text, the symbol '#' introduces
- # a comment, which continues from that symbol until
- # the end of the line. A plain comment line has a
- # whitespace character following the comment indicator.
- # There are also special comment lines defined below.
- # A special comment will always have a non-whitespace
- # character in column 2.
- #
- # A blank line should be ignored.
- #
- # The following table shows the corrections that must
- # be applied to compute International Atomic Time (TAI)
- # from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) values that
- # are transmitted by almost all time services.
- #
- # The first column shows an epoch as a number of seconds
- # since 1 January 1900, 00:00:00 (1900.0 is also used to
- # indicate the same epoch.) Both of these time stamp formats
- # ignore the complexities of the time scales that were
- # used before the current definition of UTC at the start
- # of 1972. (See note 3 below.)
- # The second column shows the number of seconds that
- # must be added to UTC to compute TAI for any timestamp
- # at or after that epoch. The value on each line is
- # valid from the indicated initial instant until the
- # epoch given on the next one or indefinitely into the
- # future if there is no next line.
- # (The comment on each line shows the representation of
- # the corresponding initial epoch in the usual
- # day-month-year format. The epoch always begins at
- # 00:00:00 UTC on the indicated day. See Note 5 below.)
- #
- # Important notes:
- #
- # 1. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is often referred to
- # as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The GMT time scale is no
- # longer used, and the use of GMT to designate UTC is
- # discouraged.
- #
- # 2. The UTC time scale is realized by many national
- # laboratories and timing centers. Each laboratory
- # identifies its realization with its name: Thus
- # UTC(NIST), UTC(USNO), etc. The differences among
- # these different realizations are typically on the
- # order of a few nanoseconds (i.e., 0.000 000 00x s)
- # and can be ignored for many purposes. These differences
- # are tabulated in Circular T, which is published monthly
- # by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures
- # (BIPM). See www.bipm.org for more information.
- #
- # 3. The current definition of the relationship between UTC
- # and TAI dates from 1 January 1972. A number of different
- # time scales were in use before that epoch, and it can be
- # quite difficult to compute precise timestamps and time
- # intervals in those "prehistoric" days. For more information,
- # consult:
- #
- # The Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical
- # Ephemeris.
- # or
- # Terry Quinn, "The BIPM and the Accurate Measurement
- # of Time," Proc. of the IEEE, Vol. 79, pp. 894-905,
- # July, 1991.
- #
- # 4. The decision to insert a leap second into UTC is currently
- # the responsibility of the International Earth Rotation and
- # Reference Systems Service. (The name was changed from the
- # International Earth Rotation Service, but the acronym IERS
- # is still used.)
- #
- # Leap seconds are announced by the IERS in its Bulletin C.
- #
- # See www.iers.org for more details.
- #
- # Every national laboratory and timing center uses the
- # data from the BIPM and the IERS to construct UTC(lab),
- # their local realization of UTC.
- #
- # Although the definition also includes the possibility
- # of dropping seconds ("negative" leap seconds), this has
- # never been done and is unlikely to be necessary in the
- # foreseeable future.
- #
- # 5. If your system keeps time as the number of seconds since
- # some epoch (e.g., NTP timestamps), then the algorithm for
- # assigning a UTC time stamp to an event that happens during a positive
- # leap second is not well defined. The official name of that leap
- # second is 23:59:60, but there is no way of representing that time
- # in these systems.
- # Many systems of this type effectively stop the system clock for
- # one second during the leap second and use a time that is equivalent
- # to 23:59:59 UTC twice. For these systems, the corresponding TAI
- # timestamp would be obtained by advancing to the next entry in the
- # following table when the time equivalent to 23:59:59 UTC
- # is used for the second time. Thus the leap second which
- # occurred on 30 June 1972 at 23:59:59 UTC would have TAI
- # timestamps computed as follows:
- #
- # ...
- # 30 June 1972 23:59:59 (2287785599, first time): TAI= UTC + 10 seconds
- # 30 June 1972 23:59:60 (2287785599,second time): TAI= UTC + 11 seconds
- # 1 July 1972 00:00:00 (2287785600) TAI= UTC + 11 seconds
- # ...
- #
- # If your system realizes the leap second by repeating 00:00:00 UTC twice
- # (this is possible but not usual), then the advance to the next entry
- # in the table must occur the second time that a time equivalent to
- # 00:00:00 UTC is used. Thus, using the same example as above:
- #
- # ...
- # 30 June 1972 23:59:59 (2287785599): TAI= UTC + 10 seconds
- # 30 June 1972 23:59:60 (2287785600, first time): TAI= UTC + 10 seconds
- # 1 July 1972 00:00:00 (2287785600,second time): TAI= UTC + 11 seconds
- # ...
- #
- # in both cases the use of timestamps based on TAI produces a smooth
- # time scale with no discontinuity in the time interval. However,
- # although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct in both
- # methods, the second method is technically not correct because it adds
- # the extra second to the wrong day.
- #
- # This complexity would not be needed for negative leap seconds (if they
- # are ever used). The UTC time would skip 23:59:59 and advance from
- # 23:59:58 to 00:00:00 in that case. The TAI offset would decrease by
- # 1 second at the same instant. This is a much easier situation to deal
- # with, since the difficulty of unambiguously representing the epoch
- # during the leap second does not arise.
- #
- # Some systems implement leap seconds by amortizing the leap second
- # over the last few minutes of the day. The frequency of the local
- # clock is decreased (or increased) to realize the positive (or
- # negative) leap second. This method removes the time step described
- # above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct
- # in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment
- # period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official
- # definition of UTC.
- #
- # Questions or comments to:
- # Judah Levine
- # Time and Frequency Division
- # NIST
- # Boulder, Colorado
- # Judah.Levine@nist.gov
- #
- # Last Update of leap second values: 5 January 2015
- #
- # The following line shows this last update date in NTP timestamp
- # format. This is the date on which the most recent change to
- # the leap second data was added to the file. This line can
- # be identified by the unique pair of characters in the first two
- # columns as shown below.
- #
- #$ 3629404800
- #
- # The NTP timestamps are in units of seconds since the NTP epoch,
- # which is 1 January 1900, 00:00:00. The Modified Julian Day number
- # corresponding to the NTP time stamp, X, can be computed as
- #
- # X/86400 + 15020
- #
- # where the first term converts seconds to days and the second
- # term adds the MJD corresponding to the time origin defined above.
- # The integer portion of the result is the integer MJD for that
- # day, and any remainder is the time of day, expressed as the
- # fraction of the day since 0 hours UTC. The conversion from day
- # fraction to seconds or to hours, minutes, and seconds may involve
- # rounding or truncation, depending on the method used in the
- # computation.
- #
- # The data in this file will be updated periodically as new leap
- # seconds are announced. In addition to being entered on the line
- # above, the update time (in NTP format) will be added to the basic
- # file name leap-seconds to form the name leap-seconds.<NTP TIME>.
- # In addition, the generic name leap-seconds.list will always point to
- # the most recent version of the file.
- #
- # This update procedure will be performed only when a new leap second
- # is announced.
- #
- # The following entry specifies the expiration date of the data
- # in this file in units of seconds since the origin at the instant
- # 1 January 1900, 00:00:00. This expiration date will be changed
- # at least twice per year whether or not a new leap second is
- # announced. These semi-annual changes will be made no later
- # than 1 June and 1 December of each year to indicate what
- # action (if any) is to be taken on 30 June and 31 December,
- # respectively. (These are the customary effective dates for new
- # leap seconds.) This expiration date will be identified by a
- # unique pair of characters in columns 1 and 2 as shown below.
- # In the unlikely event that a leap second is announced with an
- # effective date other than 30 June or 31 December, then this
- # file will be edited to include that leap second as soon as it is
- # announced or at least one month before the effective date
- # (whichever is later).
- # If an announcement by the IERS specifies that no leap second is
- # scheduled, then only the expiration date of the file will
- # be advanced to show that the information in the file is still
- # current -- the update time stamp, the data and the name of the file
- # will not change.
- #
- # Updated through IERS Bulletin C50
- # File expires on: 28 June 2016
- #
- #@ 3676060800
- #
- 2272060800 10 # 1 Jan 1972
- 2287785600 11 # 1 Jul 1972
- 2303683200 12 # 1 Jan 1973
- 2335219200 13 # 1 Jan 1974
- 2366755200 14 # 1 Jan 1975
- 2398291200 15 # 1 Jan 1976
- 2429913600 16 # 1 Jan 1977
- 2461449600 17 # 1 Jan 1978
- 2492985600 18 # 1 Jan 1979
- 2524521600 19 # 1 Jan 1980
- 2571782400 20 # 1 Jul 1981
- 2603318400 21 # 1 Jul 1982
- 2634854400 22 # 1 Jul 1983
- 2698012800 23 # 1 Jul 1985
- 2776982400 24 # 1 Jan 1988
- 2840140800 25 # 1 Jan 1990
- 2871676800 26 # 1 Jan 1991
- 2918937600 27 # 1 Jul 1992
- 2950473600 28 # 1 Jul 1993
- 2982009600 29 # 1 Jul 1994
- 3029443200 30 # 1 Jan 1996
- 3076704000 31 # 1 Jul 1997
- 3124137600 32 # 1 Jan 1999
- 3345062400 33 # 1 Jan 2006
- 3439756800 34 # 1 Jan 2009
- 3550089600 35 # 1 Jul 2012
- 3644697600 36 # 1 Jul 2015
- #
- # the following special comment contains the
- # hash value of the data in this file computed
- # use the secure hash algorithm as specified
- # by FIPS 180-1. See the files in ~/pub/sha for
- # the details of how this hash value is
- # computed. Note that the hash computation
- # ignores comments and whitespace characters
- # in data lines. It includes the NTP values
- # of both the last modification time and the
- # expiration time of the file, but not the
- # white space on those lines.
- # the hash line is also ignored in the
- # computation.
- #
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