# Allowance for leap seconds added to each time zone file.

# This file is in the public domain.

# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain
# NIST/IERS format leap-seconds.list file, which can be copied from
# <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list>
# or via a less-secure protocol and with different comments and
# less volatile last-modified and expiration timestamps, from
# <ftp://ftp.boulder.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list>.
# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see
# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds
# <https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html>.

# The rules for leap seconds are specified in Annex 1 (Time scales) of:
# Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions.
# International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunication Sector
# (ITU-R) Recommendation TF.460-6 (02/2002)
# <https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-TF.460-6-200202-I/>.
# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
# (a proxy for Earth's angle in space as measured by astronomers)
# and publishes leap second data in a copyrighted file
# <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/Leap_Second.dat>.
# See: Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second.
# URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6. doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995
# <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7909995>.

# There were no leap seconds before 1972, as no official mechanism
# accounted for the discrepancy between atomic time (TAI) and the earth's
# rotation.  The first ("1 Jan 1972") data line in leap-seconds.list
# does not denote a leap second; it denotes the start of the current definition
# of UTC.

# All leap-seconds are Stationary (S) at the given UTC time.
# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so in the unlikely
# event of a negative leap second, a line would look like this:
# Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:59	-	S
# Typical lines look like this:
# Leap	YEAR	MON	DAY	23:59:60	+	S
