[time-nuts] FW: Bulletin C number 30

Doug Hogarth doug at niceties.com
Mon Jul 4 10:13:29 EDT 2005


We are finally going to have a leap second again (first one since I bought
my 5071A over five years ago)... 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 6:28 AM
To: adresc1 at callisto.obspm.fr
Subject: Bulletin C number 30




     INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) 

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                                              Paris, 4 July 2005
                                                           
                                              Bulletin C 30
                                
                                              To authorities responsible 
					      for the measurement and 
					      distribution of time



                                   UTC TIME STEP
                            on the 1st of January 2006
                      

 A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005.
 The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:		
		
                          2005 December 31,     23h 59m 59s
                          2005 December 31,     23h 59m 60s
                          2006 January   1,      0h  0m  0s
              
 The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:
  
  from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2006 January 1  0h UTC  : UTC-TAI = - 32s
  from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice       : UTC-TAI = - 33s
  
 Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December 
 or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every 
 six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there 
 will be no time step at the next possible date.
 


                                              Daniel GAMBIS
                                              Head		
                                              Earth Orientation Center of
IERS
					      Observatoire de Paris, France





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