In case anyone didn't get this. Six month's warning. -- Richard Langley Begin forwarded message: > From: IERS EOP Product Center <[email protected]> > Subject: Bulletin C number 49 > Date: January 5, 2015 at 9:25:49 AM AST > To: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: IERS EOP Product Center <[email protected]> > > > > > INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) > > SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE > > SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE DE L'IERS > 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 > e-mail : [email protected] > http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc > > Paris, 5 January 2015 > > Bulletin C 49 > > To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time > > > > UTC TIME STEP > on the 1st of July 2015 > > > A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015. > The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: > > 2015 June 30, 23h 59m 59s > 2015 June 30, 23h 59m 60s > 2015 July 1, 0h 0m 0s > > The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: > > from 2012 July 1, 0h UTC, to 2015 July 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 35s > from 2015 July 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 36s > > > > 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 > Head > Earth Orientation Center of IERS > Observatoire de Paris, France
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