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# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)
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# SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE
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# SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
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# OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
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# 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
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# Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 29
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# Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
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# FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
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# Internet : services.iers@obspm.fr
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# Paris, 2 February 2011
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# e-mail : (E-Mail Removed)
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# http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc
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# Paris, 5 January 2012
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# To authorities responsible
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# for the measurement and
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# distribution of time
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# INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI
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# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2011.
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# The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the
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# International Atomic Time TAI is :
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# from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -34 s
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# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.
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# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
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# from 2012 July 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 35s
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# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
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# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there
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# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
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# Earth Orientation Center of the IERS
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# Earth Orientation Center of IERS
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# Observatoire de Paris, France