[Pool] Fwd: WARNING: someone's faking a leap second tonight

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

The following announcement has just been made:

>From services.iers at obspm.fr Tue Aug  7 16:37:55 2012
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:32:54 +0200
From: IERS EOP Product Center <services.iers at obspm.fr>
To: bulc.iers at obspm.fr
Subject: Bulletin C number 44




      INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)

SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE


SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE
OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
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                                              Paris, 7 August 2012


                                              Bulletin C 44

                                              To authorities responsible
                                              for the measurement and
                                              distribution of time



                           INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI


  NO leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2012.
  The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the
  International Atomic Time TAI is :

      from 2012 July 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -35 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
__________________________________________



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73,
Ged.