For now it can be changed to "official defin[i]tion of UTC" or "official [definition] of UTC" in the TZDB copy. (I'd go with the first; the second causes less spell checker grief.)

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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Tim Parenti <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> 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.



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Tim Parenti