[ntp:questions] Cannot down load the leap file
unruh
unruh at invalid.ca
Thu Jan 2 17:57:25 UTC 2014
On 2014-01-02, David Taylor <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> On 02/01/2014 04:42, Williams Catherine wrote:
>> Dear,
>>
>> I'm not sure why I cannot download the leap seconds file. Where can be
>> used now?
>>
>> - ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.3535142400
>> - ftp://tycho.usno.navy.mil/pub/ntp/leap-seconds.3535142400
>>
>> BR,
>> Yang Hong
>
> Catherine,
>
> These servers appear to be very unreliable, at least when accessing from
> outside the USA. There is an alternative at:
>
> ftp://utcnist.colorado.edu/pub/
>
> but its file:
>
> leap-seconds.3535228800
No. That file expires Jun 29 2014 which is what you would expect for Jan
2 2014. It is not stale (at least assuming it is the same file as that
same named file on ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.3535228800
..
>
> is from last March, and is now stale. The other two sites haven't come
> up in spite of waiting several minutes (at 08:00 UTC, Jan 02).
I also had trouble with usno, but not with nist.
>
> For such an important file, I expect there are mirrors in Asia and
> Europe - it's just that I haven't found them as yet.
>
For anyone's interest, here are the relevant lines from that file
# Updated through IERS Bulletin C46
# File expires on: 28 June 2014
#
#@ 3612902400
#
2272060800 10 # 1 Jan 1972
2287785600 11 # 1 Jul 1972
2303683200 12 # 1 Jan 1973
2335219200 13 # 1 Jan 1974
2366755200 14 # 1 Jan 1975
2398291200 15 # 1 Jan 1976
2429913600 16 # 1 Jan 1977
2461449600 17 # 1 Jan 1978
2492985600 18 # 1 Jan 1979
2524521600 19 # 1 Jan 1980
2571782400 20 # 1 Jul 1981
2603318400 21 # 1 Jul 1982
2634854400 22 # 1 Jul 1983
2698012800 23 # 1 Jul 1985
2776982400 24 # 1 Jan 1988
2840140800 25 # 1 Jan 1990
2871676800 26 # 1 Jan 1991
2918937600 27 # 1 Jul 1992
2950473600 28 # 1 Jul 1993
2982009600 29 # 1 Jul 1994
3029443200 30 # 1 Jan 1996
3076704000 31 # 1 Jul 1997
3124137600 32 # 1 Jan 1999
3345062400 33 # 1 Jan 2006
3439756800 34 # 1 Jan 2009
3550089600 35 # 1 Jul 2012
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