Re: Bug#842935: ITP: casacore-data-tai-utc -- Difference table between TAI and UTC for casacore

["Jonathan Quick" <jon@hartrao.ac.za>]

Hi Ole

On Wed, November 2, 2016 2:08 pm, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-astro@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name    : casacore-data-tai-utc
> * License         : BSD-2-Clause
>   Description     : Difference table between TAI and UTC for casacore
>
> This native package contains the leap second difference between TAI and
> UTC, created from /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list. The data are in
> a format specific to casacore. The table is kept in sync with the tzdata
> package.

Technically the canonical source for this information is the Bulletin C issued
by the IERS at roughly six monthly intervals.  I hope the leap-seconds.list is
maintained in reference to those.

Regards
  Jon