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

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Wed Jan 7 21:19:32 UTC 2015


Denis,

This error was present in the leap-seconds.3629404800 file as provided by
NIST.  I have copied Judah Levine on this message so that it might be fixed
in their next version.

On 7 January 2015 at 16:15, Denis Excoffier <iana at denis-excoffier.org>
wrote:

> On 2015-01-06 21:22, Tim Parenti wrote:
>
> > +#    Some systems implement leap seconds by amortizing the leap second
> > +#    over the last few minutes of the day. The frequency of the local
> > +#    clock is decreased (or increased) to realize the positive (or
> > +#    negative) leap second. This method removes the time step described
> > +#    above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct
> > +#    in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment
> > +#    period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official
> > +#    defintion of UTC.
>
> s/defintion/definition/
>
> Regards,
>
> Denis Excoffier.
>



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Tim Parenti
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