On 2014-01-02, David Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/01/2014 04:42, Williams Catherine wrote: >> Dear, >> >> I'm not sure why I cannot download the leap seconds file. Where can be >> used now? >> >> - ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.3535142400 >> - ftp://tycho.usno.navy.mil/pub/ntp/leap-seconds.3535142400 >> >> BR, >> Yang Hong > > Catherine, > > These servers appear to be very unreliable, at least when accessing from > outside the USA. There is an alternative at: > > ftp://utcnist.colorado.edu/pub/ > > but its file: > > leap-seconds.3535228800
No. That file expires Jun 29 2014 which is what you would expect for Jan 2 2014. It is not stale (at least assuming it is the same file as that same named file on ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.3535228800 .. > > is from last March, and is now stale. The other two sites haven't come > up in spite of waiting several minutes (at 08:00 UTC, Jan 02). I also had trouble with usno, but not with nist. > > For such an important file, I expect there are mirrors in Asia and > Europe - it's just that I haven't found them as yet. > For anyone's interest, here are the relevant lines from that file # Updated through IERS Bulletin C46 # File expires on: 28 June 2014 # #@ 3612902400 # 2272060800 10 # 1 Jan 1972 2287785600 11 # 1 Jul 1972 2303683200 12 # 1 Jan 1973 2335219200 13 # 1 Jan 1974 2366755200 14 # 1 Jan 1975 2398291200 15 # 1 Jan 1976 2429913600 16 # 1 Jan 1977 2461449600 17 # 1 Jan 1978 2492985600 18 # 1 Jan 1979 2524521600 19 # 1 Jan 1980 2571782400 20 # 1 Jul 1981 2603318400 21 # 1 Jul 1982 2634854400 22 # 1 Jul 1983 2698012800 23 # 1 Jul 1985 2776982400 24 # 1 Jan 1988 2840140800 25 # 1 Jan 1990 2871676800 26 # 1 Jan 1991 2918937600 27 # 1 Jul 1992 2950473600 28 # 1 Jul 1993 2982009600 29 # 1 Jul 1994 3029443200 30 # 1 Jan 1996 3076704000 31 # 1 Jul 1997 3124137600 32 # 1 Jan 1999 3345062400 33 # 1 Jan 2006 3439756800 34 # 1 Jan 2009 3550089600 35 # 1 Jul 2012 _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
