[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
> 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
> Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
> FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
> Internet :
>
<mailto:services.iers at obspm.fr>services.iers at obspm.fr
>
>
> 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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