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Document background of rolling leap seconds
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* zic.8: Give background for rolling leap seconds, adapted
from email by Arthur David Olson in:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/030368.html
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.q "Rolling"
if the leap second time given by the other fields should be interpreted as
local (wall clock) time.
(Rolling leap seconds are not supported if the
.PP
Rolling leap seconds were meant to accommodate older New York
Times Square ball drops where there'd be a
.q "3... 2... 1... leap... Happy New Year"
countdown, placing the leap second at
midnight New York time rather than midnight UTC.
This countdown style has fallen out of favor
and rolling leap seconds are not used in practice;
also, they are not supported if the
.B \*-r
option is used.)
option is used.
.PP
The expiration line, if present, has the form:
.nf
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