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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-08-17 20:49:23 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-08-17 20:49:23 +0000
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Update.
	* timezone/private.h: Update from tzcode1999e.
	* timezone/zic.c: Likewise.

	* timezone/africa: Update from tzdata1999e.
	* timezone/antarctica: Likewise.
	* timezone/asia: Likewise.
	* timezone/australasia: Likewise.
	* timezone/europe: Likewise.
	* timezone/leapseconds: Likewise.
	* timezone/northamerica: Likewise.
	* timezone/southamerica: Likewise.
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-# @(#)leapseconds	7.11
+# @(#)leapseconds	7.12
 
 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file.
 
 # The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds
-# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of TAI (atomic time); see
+# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
+# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see
 # Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time,
 # Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905.
 # There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism