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@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-# @(#)leapseconds	8.6
+# <pre>
+# @(#)leapseconds	8.8
+# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
+# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file.
 
@@ -53,40 +56,32 @@ Leap	2008	Dec	31	23:59:60	+	S
 # SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
 # OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
 # 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
-# Tel.      : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
+# Tel.      : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 29
 # FAX       : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
-# e-mail    : services.iers@obspm.fr
-# http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc
+# Internet  : services.iers@obspm.fr
 #
-# Paris, 4 July 2008
+# Paris, 15 January 2009
 #
-# Bulletin C 36
+# Bulletin C 37
 #
 # To authorities responsible
 # for the measurement and
 # distribution of time
 #
-# UTC TIME STEP
-# on the 1st of January 2009
+# INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI
 #
-# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008.
-# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:		
+# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2009.
+# The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the
+# International Atomic Time TAI is :		
 #
-# 2008 December 31,     23h 59m 59s
-# 2008 December 31,     23h 59m 60s
-# 2009 January   1,      0h  0m  0s
-#
-# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:
-#
-# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2009 January 1  0h UTC  : UTC-TAI = - 33s
-# from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice       : UTC-TAI = - 34s
+# from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -34 s
 #
 # Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
-# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
-# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there
+# or June,  depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
+# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there
 # will be no time step at the next possible date.
 #
 # Daniel GAMBIS
-# Head		
-# Earth Orientation Center of IERS
+# Head			
+# Earth Orientation Center of the IERS
 # Observatoire de Paris, France