[Spice_discussion] Fwd: FYI: No leapsecond at the end of June.

Ed Wright ed.wright at jpl.nasa.gov
Thu Jan 15 09:23:19 PST 2004


From: iers at hpopa.obspm.fr
Date: Thu Jan 15, 2004  1:45:16  AM America/Los_Angeles
To: adresc1 at hpopa.obspm.fr
Subject: Bulletin C number 27

      INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)

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                                                Paris, 15 January 2004


                                                Bulletin C 27

                                                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 June 2004.
  The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is :		
		
      from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -32 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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