Time this coming June 30th for another leap second.
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Originally Posted by International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
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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 |
There has been technical discussion for some time as to whether leap
seconds should be abandoned.