1# Allowance for leap seconds added to each time zone file.
2
3# This file is in the public domain.
4
5# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain
6# NIST format leap-seconds.list file, which can be copied from
7# <ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list>
8# or <ftp://ftp.boulder.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list>.
9# The NIST file is used instead of its IERS upstream counterpart
10# <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list>
11# because under US law the NIST file is public domain
12# whereas the IERS file's copyright and license status is unclear.
13# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see
14# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds
15# <https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html>.
16
17# The rules for leap seconds are specified in Annex 1 (Time scales) of:
18# Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions.
19# International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunication Sector
20# (ITU-R) Recommendation TF.460-6 (02/2002)
21# <https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-TF.460-6-200202-I/>.
22# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
23# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
24# (a proxy for Earth's angle in space as measured by astronomers)
25# and publishes leap second data in a copyrighted file
26# <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/Leap_Second.dat>.
27# See: Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second.
28# URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6. doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995
29# <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7909995>.
30
31# There were no leap seconds before 1972, as no official mechanism
32# accounted for the discrepancy between atomic time (TAI) and the earth's
33# rotation.  The first ("1 Jan 1972") data line in leap-seconds.list
34# does not denote a leap second; it denotes the start of the current definition
35# of UTC.
36
37# All leap-seconds are Stationary (S) at the given UTC time.
38# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so in the unlikely
39# event of a negative leap second, a line would look like this:
40# Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:59	-	S
41# Typical lines look like this:
42# Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:60	+	S
43Leap	1972	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
44Leap	1972	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
45Leap	1973	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
46Leap	1974	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
47Leap	1975	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
48Leap	1976	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
49Leap	1977	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
50Leap	1978	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
51Leap	1979	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
52Leap	1981	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
53Leap	1982	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
54Leap	1983	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
55Leap	1985	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
56Leap	1987	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
57Leap	1989	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
58Leap	1990	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
59Leap	1992	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
60Leap	1993	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
61Leap	1994	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
62Leap	1995	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
63Leap	1997	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
64Leap	1998	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
65Leap	2005	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
66Leap	2008	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
67Leap	2012	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
68Leap	2015	Jun	30	23:59:60	+	S
69Leap	2016	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
70
71# UTC timestamp when this leap second list expires.
72# Any additional leap seconds will come after this.
73# This Expires line is commented out for now,
74# so that pre-2020a zic implementations do not reject this file.
75#Expires 2022	Jun	28	00:00:00
76
77# POSIX timestamps for the data in this file:
78#updated 1467936000 (2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC)
79#expires 1656374400 (2022-06-28 00:00:00 UTC)
80
81#	Updated through IERS Bulletin C62
82#	File expires on:  28 June 2022
83