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Bug#345310: Missing leap second on 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 60s in "leapseconds" file



Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22

IERS [1] has scheduled a leap second at midnight from 2005 to 2006. It was announced by Bulletin C #30 as of 2005 July 4 [2]. On most systems people might not care about a precise local time, but on many others accurate UTC time *and* local time adjustment is essential.

This can be fixed by adding the following line (and probably updating some comments) to the file timezone/leapseconds:

Leap    2005    Dec     31      23:59:60        +       S



[1] http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/
[2] ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat




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