Would http://www.ursi.org/content/RSB/RSB_359_2016_12.pdf be a better reference? I know the article is open access on IEEE Xplore, but wouldn't the URSI one be canonical and always available? --Matthew Donadio (matt@mxd120.com) On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
* leapseconds.awk: Cite Levine 2016 instead of Quinn 1991. --- leapseconds.awk | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/leapseconds.awk b/leapseconds.awk index 405ce3a..66eb64d 100644 --- a/leapseconds.awk +++ b/leapseconds.awk @@ -17,11 +17,9 @@ BEGIN { print "# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service" print "# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1" print "# (which measures the true angular orientation of the earth in space); see" - print "# Terry J Quinn, The BIPM and the accurate measure of time," - print "# Proc IEEE 79, 7 (July 1991), 894-905 < http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/5.84965>," - print "# reprinted in: Hackman C, Sullivan DB (eds), Time and frequency measurement," - print "# American Association of Physics Teachers (1996)," - print "# <http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1168.pdf>, 75-86." + print "# Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second." + print "# URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6. doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995" + print "# http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7909995/" print "# There were no leap seconds before 1972, because the official mechanism" print "# accounting for the discrepancy between atomic time and the earth's rotation" print "# did not exist until the early 1970s." -- 2.7.4