Edit: /usr/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds (3698B)
# Allowance for leap seconds added to each time zone file.
# This file is in the public domain.
# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain
# NIST/IERS format leap-seconds.list file, which can be copied from
#
# or via a less-secure protocol and with different comments and
# less volatile last-modified and expiration timestamps, from
# .
# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see
# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds
# .
# The rules for leap seconds are specified in Annex 1 (Time scales) of:
# Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions.
# International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunication Sector
# (ITU-R) Recommendation TF.460-6 (02/2002)
# .
# The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
# periodically uses leap seconds to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1
# (a proxy for Earth's angle in space as measured by astronomers)
# and publishes leap second data in a copyrighted file
# .
# See: Levine J. Coordinated Universal Time and the leap second.
# URSI Radio Sci Bull. 2016;89(4):30-6. doi:10.23919/URSIRSB.2016.7909995
# .
# There were no leap seconds before 1972, as no official mechanism
# accounted for the discrepancy between atomic time (TAI) and the earth's
# rotation. The first ("1 Jan 1972") data line in leap-seconds.list
# does not denote a leap second; it denotes the start of the current definition
# of UTC.
# All leap-seconds are Stationary (S) at the given UTC time.
# The correction (+ or -) is made at the given time, so in the unlikely
# event of a negative leap second, a line would look like this:
# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:59 - S
# Typical lines look like this:
# Leap YEAR MON DAY 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1972 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1972 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1973 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1974 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1975 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1976 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1977 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1978 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1979 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1981 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1982 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1983 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1985 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1987 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1989 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1990 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1992 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1993 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1994 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1995 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 2008 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
Leap 2012 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 2015 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S
Leap 2016 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S
# UTC timestamp when this leap second list expires.
# Any additional leap seconds will come after this.
# This Expires line is commented out for now,
# so that pre-2020a zic implementations do not reject this file.
#Expires 2026 Dec 28 00:00:00
# Here are POSIX timestamps for the data in this file.
# "#updated" gives the last time the leap seconds data changed
# or, if this file was derived from the IERS leap-seconds.list,
# the last time that file changed in any way.
# "#expires" gives the first time this file might be wrong;
# if this file was derived from the IERS leap-seconds.list,
# this is typically a bit less than one year after "updated".
#updated 1767698058 (2026-01-06 11:14:18 UTC)
#expires 1798416000 (2026-12-28 00:00:00 UTC)
# Updated through IERS Bulletin C (https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat)
# File expires on 28 December 2026