[time-nuts] No Leap Second Dec 2006

[karl strauss]

Just saw this posting, sorry if it is old news:

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                                                 Paris, 19 July 2006


                                                 Bulletin C 32

                                                 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 2006.
   The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the
   International Atomic Time TAI is :

       from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -33 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