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  1. #
  2. # In the following text, the symbol '#' introduces
  3. # a comment, which continues from that symbol until
  4. # the end of the line. A plain comment line has a
  5. # whitespace character following the comment indicator.
  6. # There are also special comment lines defined below.
  7. # A special comment will always have a non-whitespace
  8. # character in column 2.
  9. #
  10. # A blank line should be ignored.
  11. #
  12. # The following table shows the corrections that must
  13. # be applied to compute International Atomic Time (TAI)
  14. # from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) values that
  15. # are transmitted by almost all time services.
  16. #
  17. # The first column shows an epoch as a number of seconds
  18. # since 1 January 1900, 00:00:00 (1900.0 is also used to
  19. # indicate the same epoch.) Both of these time stamp formats
  20. # ignore the complexities of the time scales that were
  21. # used before the current definition of UTC at the start
  22. # of 1972. (See note 3 below.)
  23. # The second column shows the number of seconds that
  24. # must be added to UTC to compute TAI for any timestamp
  25. # at or after that epoch. The value on each line is
  26. # valid from the indicated initial instant until the
  27. # epoch given on the next one or indefinitely into the
  28. # future if there is no next line.
  29. # (The comment on each line shows the representation of
  30. # the corresponding initial epoch in the usual
  31. # day-month-year format. The epoch always begins at
  32. # 00:00:00 UTC on the indicated day. See Note 5 below.)
  33. #
  34. # Important notes:
  35. #
  36. # 1. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is often referred to
  37. # as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The GMT time scale is no
  38. # longer used, and the use of GMT to designate UTC is
  39. # discouraged.
  40. #
  41. # 2. The UTC time scale is realized by many national
  42. # laboratories and timing centers. Each laboratory
  43. # identifies its realization with its name: Thus
  44. # UTC(NIST), UTC(USNO), etc. The differences among
  45. # these different realizations are typically on the
  46. # order of a few nanoseconds (i.e., 0.000 000 00x s)
  47. # and can be ignored for many purposes. These differences
  48. # are tabulated in Circular T, which is published monthly
  49. # by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures
  50. # (BIPM). See www.bipm.org for more information.
  51. #
  52. # 3. The current definition of the relationship between UTC
  53. # and TAI dates from 1 January 1972. A number of different
  54. # time scales were in use before that epoch, and it can be
  55. # quite difficult to compute precise timestamps and time
  56. # intervals in those "prehistoric" days. For more information,
  57. # consult:
  58. #
  59. # The Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical
  60. # Ephemeris.
  61. # or
  62. # Terry Quinn, "The BIPM and the Accurate Measurement
  63. # of Time," Proc. of the IEEE, Vol. 79, pp. 894-905,
  64. # July, 1991.
  65. #
  66. # 4. The decision to insert a leap second into UTC is currently
  67. # the responsibility of the International Earth Rotation and
  68. # Reference Systems Service. (The name was changed from the
  69. # International Earth Rotation Service, but the acronym IERS
  70. # is still used.)
  71. #
  72. # Leap seconds are announced by the IERS in its Bulletin C.
  73. #
  74. # See www.iers.org for more details.
  75. #
  76. # Every national laboratory and timing center uses the
  77. # data from the BIPM and the IERS to construct UTC(lab),
  78. # their local realization of UTC.
  79. #
  80. # Although the definition also includes the possibility
  81. # of dropping seconds ("negative" leap seconds), this has
  82. # never been done and is unlikely to be necessary in the
  83. # foreseeable future.
  84. #
  85. # 5. If your system keeps time as the number of seconds since
  86. # some epoch (e.g., NTP timestamps), then the algorithm for
  87. # assigning a UTC time stamp to an event that happens during a positive
  88. # leap second is not well defined. The official name of that leap
  89. # second is 23:59:60, but there is no way of representing that time
  90. # in these systems.
  91. # Many systems of this type effectively stop the system clock for
  92. # one second during the leap second and use a time that is equivalent
  93. # to 23:59:59 UTC twice. For these systems, the corresponding TAI
  94. # timestamp would be obtained by advancing to the next entry in the
  95. # following table when the time equivalent to 23:59:59 UTC
  96. # is used for the second time. Thus the leap second which
  97. # occurred on 30 June 1972 at 23:59:59 UTC would have TAI
  98. # timestamps computed as follows:
  99. #
  100. # ...
  101. # 30 June 1972 23:59:59 (2287785599, first time): TAI= UTC + 10 seconds
  102. # 30 June 1972 23:59:60 (2287785599,second time): TAI= UTC + 11 seconds
  103. # 1 July 1972 00:00:00 (2287785600) TAI= UTC + 11 seconds
  104. # ...
  105. #
  106. # If your system realizes the leap second by repeating 00:00:00 UTC twice
  107. # (this is possible but not usual), then the advance to the next entry
  108. # in the table must occur the second time that a time equivalent to
  109. # 00:00:00 UTC is used. Thus, using the same example as above:
  110. #
  111. # ...
  112. # 30 June 1972 23:59:59 (2287785599): TAI= UTC + 10 seconds
  113. # 30 June 1972 23:59:60 (2287785600, first time): TAI= UTC + 10 seconds
  114. # 1 July 1972 00:00:00 (2287785600,second time): TAI= UTC + 11 seconds
  115. # ...
  116. #
  117. # in both cases the use of timestamps based on TAI produces a smooth
  118. # time scale with no discontinuity in the time interval. However,
  119. # although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct in both
  120. # methods, the second method is technically not correct because it adds
  121. # the extra second to the wrong day.
  122. #
  123. # This complexity would not be needed for negative leap seconds (if they
  124. # are ever used). The UTC time would skip 23:59:59 and advance from
  125. # 23:59:58 to 00:00:00 in that case. The TAI offset would decrease by
  126. # 1 second at the same instant. This is a much easier situation to deal
  127. # with, since the difficulty of unambiguously representing the epoch
  128. # during the leap second does not arise.
  129. #
  130. # Some systems implement leap seconds by amortizing the leap second
  131. # over the last few minutes of the day. The frequency of the local
  132. # clock is decreased (or increased) to realize the positive (or
  133. # negative) leap second. This method removes the time step described
  134. # above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct
  135. # in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment
  136. # period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official
  137. # definition of UTC.
  138. #
  139. # Questions or comments to:
  140. # Judah Levine
  141. # Time and Frequency Division
  142. # NIST
  143. # Boulder, Colorado
  144. # Judah.Levine@nist.gov
  145. #
  146. # Last Update of leap second values: 5 January 2015
  147. #
  148. # The following line shows this last update date in NTP timestamp
  149. # format. This is the date on which the most recent change to
  150. # the leap second data was added to the file. This line can
  151. # be identified by the unique pair of characters in the first two
  152. # columns as shown below.
  153. #
  154. #$ 3629404800
  155. #
  156. # The NTP timestamps are in units of seconds since the NTP epoch,
  157. # which is 1 January 1900, 00:00:00. The Modified Julian Day number
  158. # corresponding to the NTP time stamp, X, can be computed as
  159. #
  160. # X/86400 + 15020
  161. #
  162. # where the first term converts seconds to days and the second
  163. # term adds the MJD corresponding to the time origin defined above.
  164. # The integer portion of the result is the integer MJD for that
  165. # day, and any remainder is the time of day, expressed as the
  166. # fraction of the day since 0 hours UTC. The conversion from day
  167. # fraction to seconds or to hours, minutes, and seconds may involve
  168. # rounding or truncation, depending on the method used in the
  169. # computation.
  170. #
  171. # The data in this file will be updated periodically as new leap
  172. # seconds are announced. In addition to being entered on the line
  173. # above, the update time (in NTP format) will be added to the basic
  174. # file name leap-seconds to form the name leap-seconds.<NTP TIME>.
  175. # In addition, the generic name leap-seconds.list will always point to
  176. # the most recent version of the file.
  177. #
  178. # This update procedure will be performed only when a new leap second
  179. # is announced.
  180. #
  181. # The following entry specifies the expiration date of the data
  182. # in this file in units of seconds since the origin at the instant
  183. # 1 January 1900, 00:00:00. This expiration date will be changed
  184. # at least twice per year whether or not a new leap second is
  185. # announced. These semi-annual changes will be made no later
  186. # than 1 June and 1 December of each year to indicate what
  187. # action (if any) is to be taken on 30 June and 31 December,
  188. # respectively. (These are the customary effective dates for new
  189. # leap seconds.) This expiration date will be identified by a
  190. # unique pair of characters in columns 1 and 2 as shown below.
  191. # In the unlikely event that a leap second is announced with an
  192. # effective date other than 30 June or 31 December, then this
  193. # file will be edited to include that leap second as soon as it is
  194. # announced or at least one month before the effective date
  195. # (whichever is later).
  196. # If an announcement by the IERS specifies that no leap second is
  197. # scheduled, then only the expiration date of the file will
  198. # be advanced to show that the information in the file is still
  199. # current -- the update time stamp, the data and the name of the file
  200. # will not change.
  201. #
  202. # Updated through IERS Bulletin C50
  203. # File expires on: 28 June 2016
  204. #
  205. #@ 3676060800
  206. #
  207. 2272060800 10 # 1 Jan 1972
  208. 2287785600 11 # 1 Jul 1972
  209. 2303683200 12 # 1 Jan 1973
  210. 2335219200 13 # 1 Jan 1974
  211. 2366755200 14 # 1 Jan 1975
  212. 2398291200 15 # 1 Jan 1976
  213. 2429913600 16 # 1 Jan 1977
  214. 2461449600 17 # 1 Jan 1978
  215. 2492985600 18 # 1 Jan 1979
  216. 2524521600 19 # 1 Jan 1980
  217. 2571782400 20 # 1 Jul 1981
  218. 2603318400 21 # 1 Jul 1982
  219. 2634854400 22 # 1 Jul 1983
  220. 2698012800 23 # 1 Jul 1985
  221. 2776982400 24 # 1 Jan 1988
  222. 2840140800 25 # 1 Jan 1990
  223. 2871676800 26 # 1 Jan 1991
  224. 2918937600 27 # 1 Jul 1992
  225. 2950473600 28 # 1 Jul 1993
  226. 2982009600 29 # 1 Jul 1994
  227. 3029443200 30 # 1 Jan 1996
  228. 3076704000 31 # 1 Jul 1997
  229. 3124137600 32 # 1 Jan 1999
  230. 3345062400 33 # 1 Jan 2006
  231. 3439756800 34 # 1 Jan 2009
  232. 3550089600 35 # 1 Jul 2012
  233. 3644697600 36 # 1 Jul 2015
  234. #
  235. # the following special comment contains the
  236. # hash value of the data in this file computed
  237. # use the secure hash algorithm as specified
  238. # by FIPS 180-1. See the files in ~/pub/sha for
  239. # the details of how this hash value is
  240. # computed. Note that the hash computation
  241. # ignores comments and whitespace characters
  242. # in data lines. It includes the NTP values
  243. # of both the last modification time and the
  244. # expiration time of the file, but not the
  245. # white space on those lines.
  246. # the hash line is also ignored in the
  247. # computation.
  248. #
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