[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)
SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE
REFERENCE
SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
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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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