Denis, This error was present in the leap-seconds.3629404800 file as provided by NIST. I have copied Judah Levine on this message so that it might be fixed in their next version. On 7 January 2015 at 16:15, Denis Excoffier <iana@denis-excoffier.org> wrote:
On 2015-01-06 21:22, Tim Parenti wrote:
+# Some systems implement leap seconds by amortizing the leap second +# over the last few minutes of the day. The frequency of the local +# clock is decreased (or increased) to realize the positive (or +# negative) leap second. This method removes the time step described +# above. Although the long-term behavior of the time scale is correct +# in this case, this method introduces an error during the adjustment +# period both in time and in frequency with respect to the official +# defintion of UTC.
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Regards,
Denis Excoffier.
-- Tim Parenti