No leap second 2026-06-30, per below. See attached patch. -- Tim Parenti ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: IERS EOP Product Center <iers.eoppc@obspm.fr> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 at 06:50 Subject: Bulletin C number 71 To: <bulc.iers@obspm.fr> 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 1 40 51 23 35 e-mail : services.iers@obspm.fr http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc Paris, 06 January 2026 Bulletin C 71 To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI NO leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026. The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -37 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. Christian BIZOUARD Director Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France
On 2026-01-06 08:26, Tim Parenti via tz wrote:
No leap second 2026-06-30, per below. See attached patch. Paris, 06 January 2026 Bulletin C 71 NO leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026. The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : Also updated leap-seconds:
$ curl ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/ | tail -3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 5069 Jan 06 12:53 leap-seconds.3976686858 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 23 Jan 06 12:55 leap-seconds.list -> leap-seconds.3976686858 drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Apr 03 2015 sources extracts: # 1) Last update of the file. # Updated through IERS Bulletin C (https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat) # The following line shows the last update of this file in NTP timestamp: #$ 3976686858 2026-01-06 Tue 11:14:18+0000 - normally updated as of midnight UTC with NTP timestamp a multiple of 86k4s # 2) Expiration date of the file given on a semi-annual basis: last June or last December # File expires on 28 December 2026 # Expire date in NTP timestamp: #@ 4007404800 -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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