<div dir="ltr"><div>NIST's leap-seconds.list was finally updated today. Patch attached.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd reached out to Christian Bizouard of IERS a bit ahead of the announcement in the hopes that we could settle the outstanding issues from 2017 with adding a public domain copyright notice to the IERS version of the file, but no luck this time around.</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 12:11, Kurt Roeckx <<a href="mailto:kurt@roeckx.be">kurt@roeckx.be</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: IERS EOP Product Center <<a href="mailto:iers.eoppc@obspm.fr" target="_blank">iers.eoppc@obspm.fr</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:bulc.iers@obspm.fr" target="_blank">bulc.iers@obspm.fr</a><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:06:25 +0200<br>Subject: Bulletin C number 58<br> <br>
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INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) <br>
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SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE<br>
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SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE DE L'IERS<br>
OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS<br>
61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)<br>
Tel. : +33 1 40 51 23 35<br>
e-mail : <a href="mailto:services.iers@obspm.fr" target="_blank">services.iers@obspm.fr</a><br>
<a href="http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc</a><br>
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Paris, 04 July 2019<br>
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Bulletin C 58<br>
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To authorities responsible<br>
for the measurement and<br>
distribution of time<br>
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INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI<br>
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NO leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2019.<br>
The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the<br>
International Atomic Time TAI is :<br>
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from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -37 s<br>
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Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December<br>
or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every<br>
six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there<br>
will be no time step at the next possible date.<br>
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Christian BIZOUARD<br>
Director<br>
Earth Orientation Center of IERS<br>
Observatoire de Paris, France<br>
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