On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:

> Peter J. Acklam schreef:
> > I could have sworn the difference was 0 seconds between 1970-01-01
> > and until the leap second in June 1972.  I should have checked
> >
> >   ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat
>
> By the way, according to the formulae on this page, TAI-UTC was 9.89
> seconds on 1971-12-31, so DateTime::LeapSecond is probably wrong to
> introduce a leap second on 1972-01-01.

Flavio got the data from here:
ftp://62.161.69.5/pub/tai/publication/leaptab.txt

That's the BIPM.

Oddly, the Olson database has the first leapsecond at 1972-06-30.  I am
confused.


-dave

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