This means that TAI-UTC = 4.2131700 + (MJD - 39126) * 0.002592, where
MJD is the modified julian day of the desired TAI-UTC delta. In this
case, the MJD (modified julian day) of midnight UTC January 1, 1970 is
40587, and plugging that into the equation above yields TAI-UTC =
8.000082 seconds.