slaDat -

SYNOPSYS

double slaDat(utc)

PARAMETERS

double utc

DESCRIPTION


  Increment to be applied to Coordinated Universal Time UTC to give
  International Atomic Time TAI.

  (double precision)

Given

     utc      double      UTC date as a modified JD (JD-2400000.5)

  Result:  TAI-UTC in seconds

  Pre 1972 January 1 a fixed value of 10 sec is returned.

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 :

 :                IMPORTANT

 :

 :  This routine must be updated on each

 :     occasion that a leap second is

 :                announced

 :

 :  Latest leap second:  1993 July 1

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  P.T.Wallace   Starlink   12 January 1994

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