[tz] [PROPOSED] Use more up-to-date citation for leap seconds

[Matthew Donadio]

Would http://www.ursi.org/content/RSB/RSB_359_2016_12.pdf be a better
reference?  I know the article is open access on IEEE Xplore, but wouldn't
the URSI one be canonical and always available?

--Matthew Donadio (matt at mxd120.com)

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> * leapseconds.awk: Cite Levine 2016 instead of Quinn 1991.
> ---
>  leapseconds.awk | 8 +++-----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/leapseconds.awk b/leapseconds.awk
> index 405ce3a..66eb64d 100644
> --- a/leapseconds.awk
> +++ b/leapseconds.awk
> @@ -17,11 +17,9 @@ BEGIN {
>    print "# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service"
>    print "# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of
> UT1"
>    print "# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in
> space); see"
> -  print "# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,"
> -  print "# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 <
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.84965>,"
> -  print "# reprinted in: Hackman C, Sullivan DB (eds), Time and frequency
> measurement,"
> -  print "# American Association of Physics Teachers (1996),"
> -  print "# <http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1168.pdf>, 75-86."
> +  print "# Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second."
> +  print "# URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6.
> doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995"
> +  print "# http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7909995/"
>    print "# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official
> mechanism"
>    print "# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the
> earth's rotation"
>    print "# did not exist until the early 1970s."
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
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