[tz] Positive leap second on 2015-06-30.

Judah Levine Judah.Levine at nist.gov
Fri Feb 6 16:12:41 UTC 2015


Hello,
    The changes have been applied to the leap second file on the two 
primary control servers:

utcnist (128.138.140.44)
utcnist2 (128.138.141.172)

The updated files will be pushed out to the other NIST servers in the 
next few weeks.

Best wishes,

Judah Levine
Time and Frequency Division
NIST Boulder

On 1/30/2015 7:50 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Levine, Judah Dr. wrote:
>> It is a significant job to make and document the change and to push 
>> it out to all of our servers, so I probably won't correct the error 
>> for now.
>
> When you fix those trivial typos, could you please also remove 
> trailing spaces from the following three lines in leap-seconds.list?  
> I found them with the shell command "grep -n '[[:space:]]$' 
> leap-seconds.list | sed 's/$/$/'".
>
> 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 $
>
> It's a small thing, but the trailing white space does complicate tz 
> maintenance slightly, particularly now that the popular Git version 
> control system flags them.  E.g., please see:
>
> https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/525886015de772fa5a9861ac33b170c3bcadd411 
>
> http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-January/021977.html
> http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-January/021988.html
>
> Thanks.

-- 
Judah Levine
Time and Frequency Division
NIST Boulder



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