[tz] Bulletin C 51: No leap second in June 2016, but new leap second file

[Brian Inglis]

On 2016-01-11 04:51, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> The International Earth rotation Service (IERS) has just published
> bulletin C 51, announcing that *no* leap second will be introduced at
> the end of June 2016:
> ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat
>
> The IERS now also makes a leap second file available for use with NTP:
> https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list
>
> This new file has the expiration date set to 28 December 2016, so users
> who have configured ntpd to use the leap second file should upgrade
> their local copy of the file.
>
> The leap second file does not only announce leap seconds, it also
> provides ntpd and thus the OS kernel with the current TAI/UTC offset,
> which is helpful for applications working with TAI.

The comment says 28 December 2016 but the expiry timestamp 3684182400
is actually 2016-09-30 00:00:00+0000, so they must be fairly confident
that current predictions of dUT1 remaining low until year end will be
borne out, and Bulletin C 52 will announce no change in July.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada