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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-08-17 20:49:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-08-17 20:49:23 +0000 |
| commit | 38c097cae8e1da0a0b90ac81102795b2198646ca (patch) | |
| tree | 8900d884c166a595f1c99779962e8674d711c6f0 /timezone/leapseconds | |
| parent | d198009a6e17e728fcfe414e19a2157e0dcf9b93 (diff) | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'timezone/leapseconds')
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/leapseconds | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
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 |