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Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

MC
Mike Cook
Tue, Jul 19, 2016 4:02 AM

As NTP comes up here quite a bit :

The IERS have recently issued a new Bulletin C  indicating that a Leap Second will be added at the end of December this year.
The Bulletin C can be seen at < https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat >
The relevant NTP leap-seconds-list file can be downloaded with anonymous ftp from the pub directory at time.nist.gov.
(The leap-seconds-list file is a symbolic link to the data file leap-seconds.3676924800 in the same directory. )

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As NTP comes up here quite a bit : The IERS have recently issued a new Bulletin C indicating that a Leap Second will be added at the end of December this year. The Bulletin C can be seen at < https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat > The relevant NTP leap-seconds-list file can be downloaded with anonymous ftp from the pub directory at time.nist.gov. (The leap-seconds-list file is a symbolic link to the data file leap-seconds.3676924800 in the same directory. ) "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. » George Bernard Shaw