Hello, Thanks for the note about the typo. It is in a comment line and has no effect on the data. It is a significant job to make and document the change and to push it out to all of our servers, so I probably won't correct the error for now. Best wishes, Judah Levine Time and Frequency Division NIST Boulder Sent from my iPad On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:19 PM, "Tim Parenti" <tim@timtimeonline.com<mailto:tim@timtimeonline.com>> wrote: 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<mailto: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.
s/defintion/definition/ Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Tim Parenti