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<div>Dear SPICE Users,</div>
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<div>Sorry for repeating an earlier announcement about a new leap second and corresponding new LSK, but it's very important and perhaps some of you have not yet taken action.</div>
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<div>Since many SPICE users have not subscribed to this announcement system, consider forwarding this announcement to any of your colleagues who may also be using SPICE. Providing such a "helping hand" could be especially important since this is the first new
leap second in three years, so those new to SPICE may not fully appreciate what is happening.</div>
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<div>The International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) has announced a new, <b>positive leap second will be added</b> at end of day (midnight) on June 30, 2015. This new leap second will affect time conversions for times occuring only on and after July 01, 2015.
<p>The leapseconds kernels (LSK) on the NAIF server have already been updated accordingly. The two versions, one for Unix/Linux/Mac (naif0011.tls) and one for PCs running Windows (naif0011.tls.pc) are available from the usual location on the NAIF server:</p>
<p> <b><a href="http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/lsk/">http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/lsk/</a></b></p>
<p>These new LSKs can be used now in any SPICE-based applications dealing with time conversions for times occuring on or after July 01, 2015, unless you wish to maintain time tag consistency with a previously generated product. Simply replace your current LSK
(name style naif0010.tls unless you or a colleague changed the file name) with naif0011.tls.</p>
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