From 38c097cae8e1da0a0b90ac81102795b2198646ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:49:23 +0000 Subject: Update. * timezone/private.h: Update from tzcode1999e. * timezone/zic.c: Likewise. * timezone/africa: Update from tzdata1999e. * timezone/antarctica: Likewise. * timezone/asia: Likewise. * timezone/australasia: Likewise. * timezone/europe: Likewise. * timezone/leapseconds: Likewise. * timezone/northamerica: Likewise. * timezone/southamerica: Likewise. --- timezone/leapseconds | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'timezone/leapseconds') diff --git a/timezone/leapseconds b/timezone/leapseconds index 1cd114b91f..82a8ddf3f1 100644 --- a/timezone/leapseconds +++ b/timezone/leapseconds @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)leapseconds 7.11 +# @(#)leapseconds 7.12 # 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 TAI (atomic time); see +# 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 -- cgit v1.2.3