leap seconds [forwarded with permission from wollman at uvm-gen.emba.uvm.edu]

[Arthur David Olson]

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> ...According to the bulletins that I've seen, |TAI-UTC| is about
> 28 seconds now.  However, the leapseconds file only lists 19 steps.
> This is probably due to the fact that the first step was 10 seconds,
> not just 1.  Is there an easy way to fix this, so my users who use NTP
> don't complain about their clocks being nine seconds off?
> 
> -GAWollman
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