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 /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
