[time-nuts] No Leap Second Dec 2006

Normand Martel martelno at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 25 17:56:50 EDT 2006


Thanks! That was news for me!

I just hope that Tom won't be sad... ;-)

73 de Normand Martel VE2UM
Montreal, Qc. Canada

--- karl strauss <karl.f.strauss at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Just saw this posting, sorry if it is old news:
> 
> INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS
> SERVICE (IERS)
> 
> SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET
> DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE
> 
> 
> SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
> OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
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> Internet  :
>
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>                                                 
> Paris, 19 July 2006
> 
> 
>                                                 
> Bulletin C 32
> 
>                                                  To
> authorities responsible
>                                                  for
> the measurement and
>                                                 
> distribution of time
> 
> 
> 
>                             INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI
> 
> 
>    NO positive leap second will be introduced at the
> end of December 2006.
>    The difference between Coordinated Universal Time
> UTC and the
>    International Atomic Time TAI is :
> 
>        from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further
> notice : UTC-TAI = -33 s
> 
>    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
>                                               
> Director
>                                                Earth
> Orientation Center of 
> IERS Observatoire de Paris, France  
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