svn commit: r51243 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/leap-seconds
Guangyuan Yang <[email protected]>
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Author: ygy
Date: Thu Nov 30 14:49:53 2017
New Revision: 51243
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51243
Log:
Improve the description of leap seconds in the article.
PR: 221037
Reviewed by: imp, phk
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/leap-seconds/article.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/leap-seconds/article.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/leap-seconds/article.xml Thu Nov 30 11:41:28 2017 (r51242)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/leap-seconds/article.xml Thu Nov 30 14:49:53 2017 (r51243)
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
<sect1 xml:id="leapseconds-definition">
<title>Introduction</title>
- <para>A <emphasis>leap second</emphasis> is an ad-hoc one-second
- correction to synchronize atomic timescales with Earth rotation.
+ <para>A <emphasis>leap second</emphasis> is an one second
+ adjustment made at specific times of year to UTC to synchronize
+ atomic time scales with variations in the rotation of the Earth.
This article describes how &os; interacts with leap
seconds.</para>
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