From iers@hpopa.obspm.fr Tue Jul 1 14:06:13 2003 Return-Path: <iers@hpopa.obspm.fr> Received: from hpopa.obspm.fr (hpopa.obspm.fr [145.238.100.44]) by lecserver.nci.nih.gov (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h61I6DdE016973 for <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from iers@localhost) by hpopa.obspm.fr (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.1) id QAA25236 for adresc1; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:49:50 +0200 (METDST) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:49:50 +0200 (METDST) From: iers@hpopa.obspm.fr Message-Id: <200307011449.QAA25236@hpopa.obspm.fr> To: adresc1@hpopa.obspm.fr Subject: Bulletin C number 26 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-roman8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO
INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE 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 Internet : iers@obspm.fr Paris, 1 July 2003 Bulletin C 26 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 December 2003. 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