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Diffstat (limited to 'leapseconds.awk')
| -rw-r--r-- | leapseconds.awk | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/leapseconds.awk b/leapseconds.awk index 15e85012bf95..b9986164f737 100644 --- a/leapseconds.awk +++ b/leapseconds.awk @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ BEGIN { print "# This file is generated automatically from the data in the public-domain" print "# NIST/IERS format leap-seconds.list file, which can be copied from" print "# <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list>" - print "# or, in a variant with different comments, from" + print "# or via a less-secure protocol and with different comments and" + print "# less volatile last-modified and expiration timestamps, from" print "# <ftp://ftp.boulder.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list>." print "# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see" print "# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds" @@ -125,7 +126,13 @@ END { epoch_minus_NTP = ((1970 - 1900) * 365 + 17) * 24 * 60 * 60 print "" - print "# POSIX timestamps for the data in this file:" + print "# Here are POSIX timestamps for the data in this file." + print "# \"#updated\" gives the last time the leap seconds data changed" + print "# or, if this file was derived from the IERS leap-seconds.list," + print "# the last time that file changed in any way." + print "# \"#expires\" gives the first time this file might be wrong;" + print "# if this file was derived from the IERS leap-seconds.list," + print "# this is typically a bit less than one year after \"updated\"." if (updated) { sstamp_to_ymdhMs(updated, ss_NTP) printf "#updated %d (%.4d-%.2d-%.2d %.2d:%.2d:%.2d UTC)\n", \ |